Keiga language

Keiga
Keiga-Timero
Native toSudan
RegionSouth Kordofan
EthnicityKeiga
Native speakers
(6,100 cited 1984)
Dialects
  • Demik
  • Aigang
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3kec
Glottologkeig1242
ELPKeiga
Keiga is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Keiga, Yega, or Deiga is a Nilo-Saharan language of the Kadu branch spoken in South Kordofan, Sudan. Dialects are Demik (Rofik) and Keiga proper (Aigang).

Keiga is a VSO language. Reh (1994) instead uses the name Deiga or Dayga, with a prefix d- instead of the place prefix k-.