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Kadu languages

Kadu
Tumtum
Kadugli–Krongo
Geographic
distribution
Nuba Mountains, Sudan
Linguistic classification Nilo-Saharan?
  • Central Sudanic – Kadu ?
    • Kadu
Subdivisions
  • Western
  • Central
  • Eastern
Glottolog kadu1256

The Kadu languages, also known as Kadugli–Krongo or Tumtum, are a small language family, once included in Kordofanian but since Thilo Schadeberg (1981) widely seen as Nilo-Saharan. However, there is little evidence for either classification, and a conservative classification would treat the Kadu languages as an independent family.

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