Koalib language
Koalib is a Niger–Congo language in the Heiban family spoken in the Nuba Mountains of southern Sudan. The Koalib Nuba, Turum and Umm Heitan ethnic groups speak this language.Dialects and locations
Koalib dialects and locations :
- Nginyukwur dialect: Hadra, Nyukwur, and Umm Heitan
- Ngirere dialect: Abri area
- Ngunduna dialect: Koalib hills area
- Nguqwurang dialect: Turum and Umm Berumbita
Writing system
It is written using the Latin script, but includes some unusual letters. It shares a tailed R with other Sudanese languages, and uses a letter resembling the at sign for transcribing the letter ع in Arabic loanwords. The Unicode Standard includes R WITH TAIL at code points U+027D and U+2C64, but the Unicode Consortium declined to encode the at sign separately as an orthographic letter.
SIL International maintains a registry of Private Use Area code points in which U+F247 represents LATIN SMALL LETTER AT, and U+F248 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AT. However, they have marked this PUA representation as deprecated since September 2014, and the current version of their corporate PUA character assignments package recommends using and for that letter instead.Publications
The New Testament was published in Koalib in 1967.Footnotes
