Werni language

Spoken in

Niger - Congo

• Kordofanian Talodi - Heiban Heiban languages East Heiban

Wm

Warnang (also called Verny, ISO 639-3: wm ) is an endangered language Kordofanian. It was 1956 spoken by around 1,100 people from the Nuba people of WERNI on remote hills between Talodi and the White Nile in the Nuba Mountains in southern Sudan.

It is one of the Heiban languages, a subgroup of the kordofanischen languages ​​, which in turn belong to the Niger -Congo language family. Together with the co it forms the subset East Heiban.

As more WERNI be forced to convert to Islam and learn the Arabic standard language associated with it, the reputation of the Warnang drops. Through marriages of WERNI with Arabs and the associated assimilation into the Arab mainstream society the Warnang threatened with extinction because descendants only learn Arabic in school and the Warnang in contrast, has no official status or protection of minorities themselves.