Kanga (Kuufo)

Kanga is a Kadu language spoken in the Miri hills west of Kadugli in South Kordofan Province (جنوب كردفان) in southern Sudan. In 2012 there were about 14,000 speakers of Kanga.

Dialects include Abu Sinun, Chiroro-Kursi, Kanga, Kufa-Lima and Krongo Abdalla. The Kufa-Lima dialect has its own alphabet, which is shown below.

Kanga alphabet and pronunciation

Kufa alphabet and pronunciation

Download alphabet charts for Kanga and Kufa in PDF or Excel format.

Information provided by Wolfram Siegel & Michael Peter Füstumum

Links

Information about the Kanga language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanga_language
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kcp
https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/10/06/46/100646256099282892829790816212446104791/OPSL_9.pdf

Kadu / Kadugli-Krongo languages

Kadugli, Kanga, Katcha, Kamda, Keiga, Krongo, Kufa, Miri

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page last modified: 23.04.21

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