Kuku language

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The Kuku language is a Western Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Kuku people of South Sudan and neighboring regions.

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Label Occurrences
Kuku language canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nilo-Saharan language
Western Nilotic language
language
alternateName Kuku of Kajo-Keji
linked to: Kuku

Kuku of Morobo
belongsToMacroArea Nile-Congo-Sudan region
linked to: Sudanic belt
closelyRelatedTo Bari language
Kakwa language
Mundari language
linked to: Mundari

Nyangwara language
Pöjulu language
continent Africa
country South Sudan
countryOfOrigin South Sudan
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Kuku people NERFINISHED
glottologName Kuku
hasDialects local village varieties
hasEthnologueEntry yes
hasGlottocode kuku1284
hasISO6393Code koe
languageBranch Bari language cluster
languageFamily Nilotic languages
languageSubfamily Western Nilotic languages
linguisticTypology SVO word order
tonal language
primaryRegion Kajo-Keji County
Morobo County
region Central Equatoria
spokenBy Kuku people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Democratic Republic of the Congo
South Sudan
Uganda
usedAlongside English
Juba Arabic
usedIn daily communication among Kuku people
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Western Nilotic languages hasMember Kuku language
Bari language closelyRelatedTo Kuku language