丁卡语

丁卡语是南蘇丹最有影响的族群丁卡人的语言。它有約420萬使用者，主要有5个方言区。西南方言（Rek）被认为是其中的标准音。

語言特徵
語音結構
丁卡語有著豐富的元音系統，至少有13個音位上的對比元音。語音表上“下標點”()指出"氣聲"元音，而在丁卡語的正字法上以“上標點”(‹¨›)表示:

丁卡語有20個輔音音素：

聲調
丁卡語屬於聲調語言。有高、中、低、降四調。

參考文獻
#Beltrame, G. (1870). Grammatica della lingua denka. Firenze: G. Civelli.
#Malou, Job. Dinka Vowel System. Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics. .
#Mitterrutzner, J. C. (1866). Die Dinka-Sprache in Central-Afrika; Kurze Grammatik, Text und Worterbuch. Brixen: A. Weger.
#Nebel, A. (1979). Dinka-English, English-Dinka dictionary. 2nd. ed. Editrice Missionaria Italiana, Bologna.
#Nebel, A. (1948). Dinka Grammar (Rek-Malual dialect) with texts and vocabulary. Instituto Missioni Africane, Verona.
#Trudinger. R. (1942-44). English-Dinka Dictionary. Sudan Interior Mission
#Tuttle. Milet Picture Dictionary English-Dinka. (at WorldLanguage.com)

外部連結
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110709191443/http://www.openroad.net.au/languages/african/dinka/ OpenRoad page on Dinka]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070331203959/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~agamlong/index.en.html Dinka Language Institute (Australia) (DLIA) multilingual site on Dinka, including in Dinka]
[http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=din SIL page on Dinka "macrolanguage"] (access to SIL & Ethnologue* pages)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070328220456/http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Dinka PanAfrican L10n page on Dinka]