Shwai language
| Shwai | |
|---|---|
| Shirumba | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | Nuba Hills |
| Ethnicity | Shwai |
Native speakers | (3,500 cited 1989)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
shw |
| Glottolog |
shwa1239[2] |
Shwai (Shuway) is a Niger–Congo language in the Heiban family spoken in Kordofan, Sudan. It is also called Ludumor. Dialects are Shabun, Cerumba (Shirumba), Ndano.
References
- ↑ Shwai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Shwai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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