Sokoro

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A language of Chad

ISO 639-3
sok
Autonym
Soŋoroŋ
User Population

5,000 (1994 SIL).

Location

Guéra region: Bahr Signaka department, Melfi subprefecture, Badanga to Gogmi; Hadjer-Lamis region: southeast.

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Language Status

5* (Developing).

Classification
Afro-Asiatic, Chadic, East, B, B.3
Dialects

Sokoro, Bedanga. Lexical similarity: 55% with Tamki [tax].

Language Use

Most also use Chadian Spoken Arabic [shu], especially men (Boyd 1989).

Language Development

2002 literacy classes. Bible portions: 2001–2021.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Sokoro
Writing

Latin script [Latn].

Other Comments

A Djebren area group called, Tunjur of Melfi, may have spoken a now extinct Sokoro dialect; now reportedly mainly speak Chadian Spoken Arabic [shu]. Muslim.