Uduk language
Koman language spoken in Sudan
title: "Uduk language" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["languages-of-ethiopia", "languages-of-sudan", "koman-languages"] description: "Koman language spoken in Sudan" topic_path: "linguistics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uduk_language" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Koman language spoken in Sudan ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Uduk |
| altname | Tʼwampa |
| states | Sudan, South Sudan |
| ethnicity | Uduk people |
| speakers | 22,000 in the Sudans |
| dateprefix | undated; presumably after |
| date | 2005 |
| ref | e17 |
| familycolor | Nilo-Saharan |
| fam2 | Komuz? |
| fam3 | Koman |
| fam4 | Central Koman |
| fam5 | Komo–Uduk |
| iso3 | udu |
| glotto | uduk1239 |
| glottorefname | Uduk |
| script | Latin |
| :: |
|name=Uduk |altname=Tʼwampa |pronunciation= |states=Sudan, South Sudan |region= |ethnicity=Uduk people |speakers= 22,000 in the Sudans |dateprefix=undated; presumably after |date=2005 |ref=e17 |familycolor=Nilo-Saharan |fam2=Komuz? |fam3=Koman |fam4=Central Koman |fam5=Komo–Uduk |iso3=udu |glotto=uduk1239 |glottorefname=Uduk |script=Latin
Uduk, also known as Twʼampa (Tʼwampa), is a Koman language spoken in Sudan near the border with Ethiopia. Nearly the entire population fled to a refugee camp in Ethiopia during the Second Sudanese Civil War, but returned to Sudan once fighting stopped. The resurgence of hostilities in the Blue Nile province after 2011 once more resulted in the Uduk community having to enter refugee camps in Ethiopia and South Sudan.
Phonology
Consonants
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| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | Plosive | unaspirated | aspirated | ejective | voiced | implosive | Nasal | Fricative | Trill | Approximant | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| () | () | ||||||||||||||||
| :: |
- Consonants in parentheses are allophones.
- Consonants in brackets are rare or marginal.
Vowels
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| Front | Central | Back | Close | Mid | Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| :: |
References
- Don Killian (2015) "Topics in Uduk Phonology and Morphosyntax" Ph.D. thesis. University of Helsinki.
- Don Killian and Harald Hammarström (2010) "Notes on the morphosyntax of Uduk"
- Bender, M. L. 1983. Proto-Koman phonology and lexicon. Afrika und Übersee 66, 259–297.
References
- Killian 2015, pp. 4f
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