Dagik language

Dagik, or Dengebu, Dagig, Thakik, Buram, Reikha, is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, Sudan. It is 80% lexically similar with Ngile, which is also spoken by the Mesakin people.

Dagik
Dhaduwa
Native to	Sudan
Region	Nuba Hills
Ethnicity	Mesakin
Native speakers	67,000 (2022)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Kordofanian Talodi–Heiban Talodi Ngile–Dengebu Dagik
Dialects	Arreme Adobu Tosari
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dec
Glottolog	dagi1241

The most comprehensive grammar is that of Vanderelst (2016).^[2]

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p	t̪	t			k
Fricative	(f)		s				(h)
Nasal	m	n̪	n			ŋ
Rhotic			r	ɽ
Approximant	w		l		j

• Sounds /p, t̪, t, k/ can have intervocalic allophones as sonorants [β, ð, ɾ, ɣ], and voiced allophones [b, d̪, d, ɡ] when after nasals.
• Sounds [f, h] only have marginal status.
• /r/ can also be heard as a tap [ɾ] allophone.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
	ɪ		ʊ
Mid	ɛ	ə	ɔ
Open	a

• /u/ can also assimilate to a close-mid [o] in different environments.^[2]