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Dilling language

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Often times one only puts first person pronouns in front of the verb and leaves it out when referring to the 3rd person sg/pl or if they wanted to use it as a noun when they want to stress this part, they would put it in front of the verb. (Gebel Delen 1920:96)
440:’ “the (mentioned) man”(Gebel Delen 1920:42). Exceptions are names and If the noun has an attribute afterwards it is either placed in front, between the noun and attribute or it is multiplied (Gebel Delen 1920:42). 419:
In Dilling there is no difference grammatical gender in nouns verb forms, pronouns and relative terms, to express a gender in a person one adds expression to clarify such as for example
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Numbers 1-29 are written in Dilling starting from 30 numbers are either accumulating the numbers or taken from Arabic especially starting from 100(Gebel Delen 1920:90-92).
431:(woman). These are added apposition without a connector. With animals the name classifies gender and species, ‘tẹ’ “female cow” and ‘tere’ “bull”. (Gebel Delen 1920:40-41) 1857: 434:
Dilling does not have specific and non specific articles but it uses personal pronouns of the 3rd person singular or plural and is placed in front of the noun ‘
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Dilling has 9 vowels a,e,ẹ,ḙ,i,ọ,ǒ,u and 21 consonants as following (Gebel Delen 1920:3):
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Dilling is classified as Definitely Endangered by the
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Index

Sudan
Nuba Hills
Dilling
Language family
Nilo-Saharan
Eastern Sudanic
Northern Eastern
Nubian
Central
Hill
Writing system
Latin
ISO 639-3
dil
Glottolog
dill1242
ELP
Dilling

UNESCO
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Hill Nubian
Nuba Mountains
Sudan
Ethnologue
moribund
Sudanese Arabic
South Kordofan
Sudan
Debri

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