Nilotic · ISO 639-3 dip
Northeastern Dinka Language
Northeastern Dinka is a Nilotic language spoken by about 5.3 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Northeastern Dinka is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Northeastern Dinka
Language family
- Nilotic
- Western Nilotic
- Dinka-Nuer
- Dinka
- Northeastern Dinka
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Northeastern Dinka language
Northeastern Dinka is spoken by about 5.3 million people, which makes it the 177th most spoken language in the world — just behind Kituba (Democratic Republic of Congo) (5.4 million) and ahead of Pedi (5.3 million). It belongs to the Nilotic language family and, more precisely, to the Dinka group within the Dinka-Nuer branch.
Where is Northeastern Dinka spoken?
Northeastern Dinka is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Sudan (5.0 million) and South Sudan (320,000).
Share of the population that speaks Northeastern Dinka: Sudan 9.9% (5.0 million) and South Sudan 2.5% (320,000).
Northeastern Dinka is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Northeastern Dinka is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Dinka.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 dip.
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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.