Reel

Facts

  • Language: Reel
  • Alternate names: Atuot, Atwot, Thok Cieng Reel, Thok Reel
  • Language code: atu
  • Language family: Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic, Nilotic, Western, Dinka-Nuer, Nuer (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 50,000
  • Vulnerability: Vulnerable
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    Live among and are culturally Dinka; 100 km from the Nuer, but have common grazing grounds with them. Subtribes: Apak, Luac, Jilek, Jikey (Rorkec), Akot, and Kuek. Ethnonym: Atuot by the Dinka. Cieng Luai dialect spoken by Luac, Jilek, and Akot; Cieng Nhyam spoken by Kuek and Jikeyi.

    Reel is spoken in Sudan, Africa.