Endangered Languages Project - Shatt

Shatt

^{[aka Caning,]}

Classification: Daju

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vulnerable

ALSO KNOWN AS		Caning
CLASSIFICATION		Daju, Eastern Daju
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		shj
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
30,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
(T. Stirtz)

DATE OF INFO: 2014

PLACES: Sudan;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Janub Kurdufan state: Shatt Daman, Shatt Safia, and Shatt Tebeldia; Abu Hashim and Abu Sinam areas."

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Spoken in the Nuba mountains to the south of Kadugli (Southern Kordofan
State, Republic of the Sudan). To be more precise, the Shatt people are settled in three distinct areas, the groups and dialects of which are known as Shatt Damam, Shatt Tebeldia and Shatt Safia or Safaya."

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
15,000
Native speakers worldwide

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
15,000
Native speakers worldwide

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

10.8333333333, 30.0

COORDINATES

10.8117, 29.7235

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press