Wali language (Sudan)

Not to be confused with Wali language (Gur).

Wali (also Walari, Walarishe, Wele) is a Hill Nubian language spoken in the northwestern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is spoken by around 9,000 people 12 km northeast of Katla. Ethnologue reports that use of Wali is vigorous and that there are many monolingual speakers.^[1] Young children speak English and Wali, but it is expected that the next generation will continue to communicate using Wali.^[2]

Wali
Walari
Native to	Sudan
Region	Nuba Mountains
Native speakers	9,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Northern Eastern Nubian Central Hill (Unclassified) Wali
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wll
Glottolog	wali1262
ELP	Wali
Wali is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger