Kadaru language


Kadaru is a Hill Nubian language spoken in the northern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is spoken by around 25,000 people in the Jibaal as-Sitta hills, between Dilling and Delami. It is closely related to Ghulfan, with which it forms the Kadaru-Ghulfan subgroup of Hill Nubian.

Dialects

Ethnologue reports that there are six dialects spoken by six clan groups living on six separate hills: Kadaru, Kururu, Kafir, Kurtala, Dabatna and Kuldaji. The Western form used by the Berko people at Habila may be another dialect or a separate language.