The Kujarke people (also spelled Kujargé) are a little-known ethnic group of the Ouaddaï Region in eastern Chad and South Darfur, Sudan. They speak Kujargé, a divergent, unclassified Afro-Asiatic language. [2] . Their current population and locations are …

The Kujarke people are a little-known ethnic group of the Ouaddaï Region in eastern Chad and South Darfur, Sudan. They speak Kujargé, a divergent, unclassified ...

The Kujarke lived in proximity with the Sinyar, Daju, and Fur peoples. Although the Kujarke were mostly endogamous, [2] Sinyar men may have also intermarried with Kujarke women, as Kijaar was the name of one of the 18 Sinyar clans. The Kijaar clan was located closer to the core Kujarke area of Jebel Mirra than all of the other Sinyar clans. [4]

The Kujarke people (also spelled Kujargé) are a little-known ethnic group of the Ouaddaï Region in eastern Chad and South Darfur, Sudan. They speak Kujargé, a divergent, unclassified Chadic language.

"Spoken by a small and scattered group of hunter-gatherers.... The fate of the Kujarge people, whose homeland is exactly in the centre of recent conflict, is unknown, but prognostications cannot be good." Information from: “Endangered Languages in Central Africa” (163-178) . Bruce Connell (2007) , Matthias Brenzinger · Mouton de Gruyter.

(Kujarke) Entries: 1 Last update: 27/10/2014 Compiled by Thanos Kouravelos Doornbos, P. & Bender, M. L. 1983 “Languages of Wadai-Darfur”, in Nilo-Saharan language studies, by M. Lionel Bender (ed.), pp. 43-79. East Lansing, MI: African Studies Center, Michigan State University, Committee on Northeast African Studies Monograph No. 13. (p. 60)

Kujarke (or Kujarge) was a language spoken by c. 1000 speakers in seven villages near Jebel Mirra in eastern Chad and also in several Sudanese villages along the lower Wadi Salih and Wadi Azum in 1981, i.e. in the time when it was described by …

The Kujarke language is an isolate from Chad-Sudan neighborhood, described by the anthropologist Doornbos in 1981 (partially published in 1983). The present study operates with all c. 200 lexemes collected by Doornbos and evaluates their affinities in neighboring languages classified as Chadic and Nilo-Saharan.

The Kujarke people (also spelled Kujargé) are a little-known ethnic group of the Ouaddaï Region in eastern Chad and South Darfur, Sudan. They speak Kujargé, a divergent, unclassified Afro-Asiatic language. Their current population and locations are unknown due to the war in Darfur. Furthermore, they have not been previously recorded as a separate ethnic group by any government or foreign ...

The Kujarke people (also spelled Kujargé) are a little-known ethnic group of the Ouaddaï Region in eastern Chad and South Darfur, Sudan. They speak Kujargé, a divergent, unclassified Chadic language.