Koalib language
| Koalib | |
|---|---|
| Rere | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | Nuba Hills |
| Ethnicity | Koalib, Turum, Umm Heitan |
Native speakers | (44,000 cited 1984)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kib |
Koalib (also called Kwalib, Abri, Lgalige, Nirere, and Rere) is a Niger–Congo language in the Heiban family spoken in the Sudan.[2] The Koalib Nuba, Turum, and Umm Heitan ethnic groups speak this language.
It is written using the Latin script,[2] but includes some unusual letters. It shares a tailed R (Ɽ) with other Sudanese languages, and uses a letter resembling the at sign (@) in writing Arabic loanwords. The Unicode Standard includes R WITH TAIL at code points U+027D (lowercase) and U+2C64 (uppercase), but the Unicode Consortium declined to encode the at sign separately as an orthographic letter.[3] However, SIL International maintains a registry of Private Use Area code points in which U+F247 represents LATIN SMALL LETTER AT, and U+F248 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AT.[4]
References
- ^ Koalib at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ^ a b Ethnologue report for language code: kib, retrieved on Apr. 12, 2010.
- ^ Constable, Peter, and Lorna A. Priest (Oct. 12, 2009) SIL Corporate PUA Assignments 5.2a. SIL International. pp. 59-60. Retrieved on Apr. 12, 2010.
- ^ Charis SIL font documentation, retrieved on Apr. 12, 2010.