Dagik language

{{Short description|Talodi language spoken in Sudan}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Dagik

|nativename=Dhaduwa

|states=Sudan

|region=Nuba Hills

|ethnicity=Mesakin

|speakers={{sigfig|67,000|2}}

|date=2022

|ref=e27

|dia1=Arreme

|dia2=Adobu

|dia3=Tosari

|script=Latin

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Kordofanian

|fam3=Talodi–Heiban

|fam4=Talodi

|fam5=Ngile–Dengebu

|iso3=dec

|glotto=dagi1241

|glottorefname=Dagik

}}

Dagik, or Dengebu, Dagig, Thakik, Buram, Reikha, is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, Sudan. It is 80% lexically similar with Ngile, which is also spoken by the Mesakin people.

The most comprehensive grammar is that of Vanderelst (2016).Vanderelst, John. 2016. A Grammar of Dagik: A Kordofanian Language of Sudan. (Grammatical Analyses of African Languages, 50.) Cologne: Köppe.