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Dinka, South Central

A language of Sudan

ISO 639-3: dib

Population	250,000. 2,000 Aker, 2,000 Thany, 22,000 Ciec, 25,000 Gok (Tucker and Bryan 1956). Total Dinka 2,000,000 or more.
Region	South, west of the Nile, south of the Sudd. Aker is southeast of Agar; Aliap south of Bor [dks] in fishing villages mainly on Nile east bank; Ciec in Lakes District on Nile west bank; Gok between Agar and Rek [dik] in Jur River and Lakes districts.
Language map	Sudan
Alternate names	Agar, Central Dinka
Dialects	Aliap (Aliab, Thany, Aker), Ciec (Ciem, Cic, Chiech, Kwac, Ajak, Ador), Gok (Gauk, Cok), Agar. The Gok dialect influenced by Southwestern Dinka [dik] with Arabic loans; Agar being accepted as educational standard for South Central Dinka [dib].
Classification	Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic, Nilotic, Western, Dinka-Nuer, Dinka A member of macrolanguage Dinka [din] (Sudan).
Language use	All domains. All ages.
Language development	Bible portions: 1866–1916.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Pastoralists; agriculturalists: grain, corn, peanuts, beans.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Duerksen, John. 2004. "Dinka-Nuer orthographies."

Gilley, Leoma. 2004. "Morphophonemic orthographies in fusional languages: the cases of Dinka and Shilluk."  

Roettger, Larry and Lisa Roettger. 1989. "A Dinka dialect study."

Wise, Mary Ruth and Richard L. Watson, editors. 1989. Occasional papers in the study of Sudanese languages no. 6.

Vernacular Publications

Cïït ke gɔ̈t: Yenë ke ka cïke gɔ̈ɔ̈r tɛ̈ɛ̈k yiic. 2005.