Kadu | |
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Tumtum Kadugli–Krongo |
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Geographic distribution |
Nuba Mountains, Sudan |
Linguistic classification |
Nilo-Saharan?
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Subdivisions |
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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.
There are three branches: