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Dual marking and kinship terms in Afitti

Alex de Voogt. 2011. "Dual Marking and Kinship Terms in Afitti." In Studies in language, 35: 898-911. John Benjamins.

Endangered
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
About Vitality Level
~4,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends

Speaker Number Trend 3

Only about half of community members speak the language. Speaker numbers are decreasing steadily, but not at an accelerated pace.

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Domains of Use

Domain Of Use 4

Used mainly only in the home and/or with family, and may not be the primary language even in these domains for many community members.

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Comments on speakers
"Most of the Afitti people are bilingual and Arabic is often found as their first rather than their second language. The regional language, known as colloquial Sudanese Arabic, is used for all formal and regional communication, which partly explains this development [...] The relatively small number of speakers, as well as the war in Sudan have left this language with little to no attention from current linguists with the notable exception of Roland C. Stevenson (Stevenson, Rottland & Jakobi 1992; Bender 2000) who collected materials in 1986–88."

Location and Context
Countries
North Kordofan, Sudan
Location Description

Near the town of ar-Rahad. "It is spoken to the east of a solitary rock formation, known as Jebel el-Dair."

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Other Languages Used By The Community
Sudanese Arabic
Number of Other Language Speakers:
Most
Domains of Other Languages:
All formal and regional communication

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