Nilotic · ISO 639-3 din
Dinka Language Thuɔŋjäŋ
Dinka is a Nilotic language spoken by about 4.2 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Dinka is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Dinka
Language family
- Nilotic
- Western Nilotic
- Dinka-Nuer
- Dinka
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Dinka language
Dinka (Thuɔŋjäŋ) is spoken by about 4.2 million people. It belongs to the Nilotic language family and, more precisely, to the Dinka-Nuer group within the Dinka-Nuer branch.
Where is Dinka spoken?
Dinka is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Sudan (4.2 million).
Dinka is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Dinka is written in the Latin script.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Northeastern Dinka.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 din.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.