Jelkung language

{{Short description|Afro-Asiatic language of Chad}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Jelkung

|states=Chad

|region=south central

|ethnicity=

|speakers={{sigfig|1,340|2}}, including Saba

|date=2000

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Afro-Asiatic

|fam2=Chadic

|fam3=East Chadic

|fam4=East Chadic B

|fam5=Mubi (B.1.2)

|iso3=saa

|iso3comment=(as a synonym of Saba)

|glotto=none

}}

Jelkung is a possible Afro-Asiatic language spoken in south central Chad.Blench, 2006. [http://rogerblench.info/Language/Afroasiatic/General/AALIST.pdf The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List] (ms)

Ethnologue 18 lists Jelkung as a synonym of Saba, in a different branch of East Chadic.