Information from: “Africa” ( ch. 7) . Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and F. K. Erhard Voeltz (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge
Threatened
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~8,000
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
Arabic
PLACES
Miri Hills, Sudan
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
Threatened
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
8,000
DATE OF INFO
1989
PLACES
Sudan;
Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing
Threatened
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
8,000
Information from: “World Oral Literature Project” .
Threatened
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
8,000
Information from: “Reports on field research: the situation of endangered languages in the Sudan and some notes on Kufo (online article)” . Blench, Roger M. (2004)
"Most of these settlements are now deserted and there are reckoned to be perhaps a hundred Kufo speakers still resident in the hills. The numbers of refugee communities are hard to reckon, but there are probably less than a thousand and some of these are now semi-speakers."
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
"The situation is made worse by the fact that they are ‘intentionally endangered’, actively discouraged by government policy."
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS
"The first efforts of literacy in Kufo began in 1994, with the production of a primer and work on the language has continued ever since."
More on Orthography
"... many Nuba groups have language committees and are active in promoting writing and orthography."
PLACES
Khartoum and Kosti
LOCATION DESCRIPTION
"Kufo [=Kufa] was spoken originally in some six villages of the Nuba Hills, but today is spoken principally by dislocated communities in Khartoum and Kosti.'
