Kwegu

Facts

  • Language: Kwegu
  • Alternate names: Koegu, Kwegi, Koyego, Menja, Nidi, Bacha
  • Language code: xwg
  • Language family: Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic, Eastern, Surmic, South, Southeast, Kwegu (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: ~300
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script: Unwritten.

More information:

    Seen as lower class by Bodi, Mursi, Karo, or Nyangatom. Men from these patron groups may marry Kwegu women. A small group who maintain a basically constant population.

    Kwegu is spoken in Ethiopia, Africa.