The Daju languages are spoken in isolated pockets across a wide area of Sudan and Chad, in parts of the regions of Kordofan, Darfur, and Wadai. They belong to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan. They are sub-classified as follows, following Stevenson 1956: Eastern Daju: Shatt in the Shatt Hills southwest of Kadugli, Sudan. (The name "Shatt" is also applied to other unrelated languages of the area.

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  • The Daju languages are spoken in isolated pockets across a wide area of Sudan and Chad, in parts of the regions of Kordofan, Darfur, and Wadai. They belong to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan. They are sub-classified as follows, following Stevenson 1956: Eastern Daju: Shatt in the Shatt Hills southwest of Kadugli, Sudan. (The name "Shatt" is also applied to other unrelated languages of the area. ) Liguri in the Nuba Hills, Sudan Western Daju: Daju Mongo in Dar Daju, Chad Sila in Dar Sila, Chad Nyala around Nyala in Darfur, Sudan and Beigo (extinct) in southern Darfur Njalgulgule in southern Sudan on the Sopo River Proto-Daju has been partially reconstructed by Robin Thelwall (1981). In his judgement, the Eastern Daju languages separated from the others perhaps as much as 2000 years ago, while the Western Daju languages were spread more recently, perhaps by the Daju state which dominated Darfur from about 1200 AD until scattered after the death of Kasi Furogé, the Daju king, and replaced by the Tunjur. The principal phonetic difference between the two branches is the reflex of proto-Daju *ɣ, reflected as Western *r and Eastern *x. The typical verb root in Daju is a monosyllable of the form (C)VC(C). The perfective takes a prefixed k-; the imperfective, a prefixed a(n)-. The verb takes person suffixes, exemplified in Shatt (for the verb "drink" in the imperfective): Suffixes on nouns serve to mark singulative (-tic, -təs), generic, and plural forms. The typical word order is Subject Verb Object in most Daju languages, with exceptions such as Sila, and Possessed-Possessor.
  • Die Daju-Sprachen sind eine Untergruppe des ostsudanischen Zweigs der nilosaharanischen Sprachfamilie, die im Osten der Republik Tschad und im Westen der Republik Sudan gesprochen werden. Dazu zählen nach Bender (2000): Daju (ca. 23.000 Sprecher) Shatt (ca. 15.000 Sprecher) Liguri (ca. 2.500 Sprecher) Nyala-Lagowa (ca. 80.000 Sprecher) Nyolgé (Nyalgulgulé) (ca. 1.000 Sprecher) Mongo (ca. 31.000 Sprecher) Sila (ca. 38.000 Sprecher) Beygo (ausgestorben)
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  • Nilo-Saharan
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  • Daju
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  • The Daju languages are spoken in isolated pockets across a wide area of Sudan and Chad, in parts of the regions of Kordofan, Darfur, and Wadai. They belong to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan. They are sub-classified as follows, following Stevenson 1956: Eastern Daju: Shatt in the Shatt Hills southwest of Kadugli, Sudan. (The name "Shatt" is also applied to other unrelated languages of the area.
  • Die Daju-Sprachen sind eine Untergruppe des ostsudanischen Zweigs der nilosaharanischen Sprachfamilie, die im Osten der Republik Tschad und im Westen der Republik Sudan gesprochen werden. Dazu zählen nach Bender (2000): Daju (ca. 23.000 Sprecher) Shatt (ca. 15.000 Sprecher) Liguri (ca. 2.500 Sprecher) Nyala-Lagowa (ca. 80.000 Sprecher) Nyolgé (Nyalgulgulé) (ca. 1.000 Sprecher) Mongo (ca. 31.000 Sprecher) Sila (ca. 38.000 Sprecher) Beygo (ausgestorben)
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  • Daju languages
  • Daju-Sprachen
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