Udukn.adj.
/ˈʊdʊk/ a. (A member of) a people inhabiting the Upper Nile region of the Sudan. Also attributive or as adj.
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Kababish1790
Nuba1790
Shilluk1790
Fulani1839
Nuer1861
Hausa1879
Uduk1927
the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Sudan > [adjective]
Fula1794
Fellata1820
Fulani1839
Nuba1855
Pullo1856
Fulbe1857
Uduk1927
Peul1935
1906 El Kaimakam Nickerson Bey Dar Fung & Burun Country (typescript NRO Dakhlia i. 112/16/102, Nat. Records Office, Khartoum) 25 The northerly villages of these people call themselves Uddug.]
1927 J. P. W. Chataway Prelim. Notes Uduk Tribe (typescript NRO Dakhlia i. 112/17/106, Nat. Records Office, Khartoum) The Uduks on the Khor Ahmar (Kurara) however are said..to have been under Gule during the ‘Turkia’.
1932 E. E. Evans-Pritchard in Sudan Notes & Rec. XV. 32 I shall refer to these people as Uduk, which they inform me is their correct name... The Uduk live on the Khor Ahmar and Khor Tombak.
1932 E. E. Evans-Pritchard in Sudan Notes & Rec. XV. 32 Pirrie could see no relationship between the Uduk language and these Burun languages, and my vocabularies bear out his contention.
1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating ix. 218 The Uduks..do not use their numerical system for..large numbers.
1979 W. James 'Kwanim Pa iv. 136 Meban women are more ‘housewifely’ than their Uduk sisters.
1983 L. Hyde Gift vi. 99 The Uduk are matrilineal; neither in structure nor in ceremony is an Uduk bride (or her fertility) given in marriage.
b. The Koman language of these people.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Nilo-Saharan languages > [noun] > Sudanic
Nubian1605
Sudanic1817
Lugbara1921
Uduk1932
Pokot1951
1932 C. G. Seligman & B. Z. Seligman Pagan Tribes Nilotic Sudan xii. 421 Professor Evans-Pritchard..divides the languages of southern Darfung into the following groups..(2) Uduk, unrelated to other languages of this area.
1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating ix. 218 The languages of primitive peoples often possess quite a full system of time measurements. Uduk, for example, identifies a number of relatively precise periods.
1977 C. F. Voegelin & F. M. Voegelin Classif. & Index World's Langs. 205 Uduk... Sudan: Upper Nile Province.
1979 W. James 'Kwanim Pa i. 8 Uduk as a mother tongue is spoken by only about 10,000 people.
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