Koalib language

Spoken in

Niger - Congo

• Atlantic - Congo Kordofanian
• Talodi - Heiban Central Heiban languages

Kib

Koalib (also called Kwalib, Abri, Lgalige, Nirere and Rere ) is a Niger -Congo language of Heiban language group, which is spoken in Sudan.

The people of the Nuba Koalib that Turum and Umm Heitan speak this language.

The language is now written in the Latin alphabet., But contains also spoke own special character. It shares the cock -R ( ɽ ) with other Sudanese languages ​​and used in writing Arabic loan words a letter, which is similar to the at sign (@). The Unicode standard includes the R WITH TAIL at the codepoints U 027 D ( lowercase ) and U 2 C64 ( upper case ) with one, but the Unicode Consortium refused the at- sign as a separate orthographic characters to encode. However, SIL International maintains a registry of the Private Use Area codepoints, where is U F247 LATIN SMALL LETTER AT and U F248 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AT.