Suri > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Suri
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Surma; Shuri; Churi; Dhuri; Shuro; Eastern Suri; Tirmaga
Spoken in:
Sudan, Ethiopia
Number of speakers:
19,600 in Ethiopia (1994 census). 18,640 monolinguals. Population total all countries: 20,600. Ethnic population: 19,632 (1994 census)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
1000
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
20622
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
suq
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Nilo-Saharan
Parent Subgroup:
Suri; Suriname (suri)
Child Dialects:
Tirma; Tirima; Terema; Terna; Dirma; Cirma; Tirmaga; Tirmagi; Tid (suq-tir)
Chai; Cai; Caci (suq-cha)
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Suri
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