| Lafofa | |
|---|---|
| Kidie Lafofa | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | Nuba Hills |
| Ethnicity | Lafofa |
Native speakers | 30,000 (2023)[1] |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | laf |
| Glottolog | lafo1243 |
| ELP | Lafofa |
 Lafofa is classified as Severely Endangered by theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Lafofa, alsoTegem–Amira, is adialect cluster spoken in the southernNuba Mountains in the south ofSudan. Blench (2010) considers theTegem andAmira varieties to be distinct languages; as Lafofa is poorly attested, there may be others.
Greenberg (1950) classified Lafofa as one of theTalodi languages, albeit a divergent one, but without much evidence. More recently this position has been abandoned, and Lafofa is left unclassified within Niger–Congo. Norton (2016) tentatively finds Lafofa to be closest to theIjoid languages.[2] It is considered a language isolate by Glottolog.
Unlike the neighbouringTalodi–Heiban languages which haveSVO word order, the Lafofa languages haveSOV word order.[3]
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