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Daju Dar Daju
Daju Mongo
Native to	Chad
Region	Batha (Mongo)
Native speakers	60,000 (2020)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Southern Eastern? Daju Western Daju Dar Daju
Dialects	Bardangal Eref Gadjira
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	djc
Glottolog	dard1243

Daju Mongo, also Wadai Daju or Dar Daju Daju, is an Eastern Sudanic language, one of three closely related languages in the area called "Daju" (the other two being the Nyala language and the Sila language). It is spoken in Chad by the Dar Daju Daju people near the Darfur border. There are three dialects, Bardangal, Eref, and Gadjira.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar/ Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	c	k
	voiced	b	d	ɟ	ɡ
	prenasal	ᵐb	ⁿd	ᶮɟ	ᵑɡ
	implosive	ɓ	ɗ	ʄ
Fricative	voiceless		s		(h)
	voiced		(z)
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Tap			ɾ
Approximant		w	l	j

• Sounds /z h/ are only heard among Arabic loanwords.
• /s/ can be heard as [ʃ] when in the environment of palatal consonants, or before front vowels.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː		u uː
Mid	e eː		o oː
Open		a aː

• Sounds /e, o/ can be heard as [ɛ, ɔ] when in closed syllables.