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Kelo
Kelo
Kelo–Beni Sheko
Native to	Sudan
Region	Blue Nile State
Ethnicity	Tornasi people
Native speakers	200 (2009)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Southern Eastern Eastern Jebel Aka–Kelo–Molo Kelo; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Kelo; Beni-Sheko;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xel
Glottolog	kelo1246
ELP	Kelo
	Kelo is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Kelo is a moribund Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Tornasi people in Sudan.

A closely related variety called Beni Sheko has been documented by Bender (1997).^[2] Beni Sheko speakers consider themselves to be part of the same ethnic groups as Kelo speakers (Bender 1997: 190).

References

↑ Kelo at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
↑ Bender, M. Lionel. 1997. The Eastern Jebel Languages of Sudan. Afrika und Übersee 80: 189-215.

External links

Kelo basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

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[e16-1] Kelo at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)

[2] Bender, M. Lionel. 1997. The Eastern Jebel Languages of Sudan. Afrika und Übersee 80: 189-215.

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