Shatt

Facts

  • Language: Shatt
  • Alternate names: Caning
  • Language code: shj
  • Language family: Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic, Western, Daju, Eastern Daju (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 30,000
  • Vulnerability: Vulnerable
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    Ethnonym: Shatt, dispersed or scattered, applied by Arabic speakers to various inhabitants of the Kordofan Hills. Distinct from Thuri (Shatt) (See: [[Thuri]]) in the Lwo group.

    Shatt is spoken in Sudan, Africa.