Dagik language explained

Dagik
Nativename:	Dhaduwa
States:	Sudan
Region:	Nuba Hills
Ethnicity:	Mesakin
Date:	2022
Ref:	e27
Dia1:	Arreme
Dia2:	Adobu
Dia3:	Tosari
Script:	Latin
Familycolor:	Niger-Congo
Fam2:	Kordofanian
Fam3:	Talodi–Heiban
Fam4:	Talodi
Fam5:	Ngile–Dengebu
Iso3:	dec
Glotto:	dagi1241
Glottorefname:	Dagik

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.

The most comprehensive grammar is that of Vanderelst (2016).^[1]

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/			pronounced as /link/
Fricative	(pronounced as /link/)		pronounced as /link/				(pronounced as /link/)
Nasal	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/			pronounced as /link/
Rhotic			pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Approximant	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/

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	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/
Close	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/
Mid	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Open	pronounced as /link/

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

Notes and References

Vanderelst, John. 2016. A Grammar of Dagik: A Kordofanian Language of Sudan. (Grammatical Analyses of African Languages, 50.) Cologne: Köppe.