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The Datooga language is a Nilotic language, or actually a dialect cluster, of the Southern group. It is spoken by the Datooga people of the Great Rift Valley of Tanzania. The name is variously spelled ''Datog, Tatoga,'' or ''Tatog.'' The Sukuma name ''Taturu'' is also sometimes used in English; the Swahili name ''Mang'ati'' comes from Maasai, where it means "enemy". However, it is not considered offensive to the Datooga, as there is a degree of pride in being the historic enemy of the Maasai. In addition, numerous tribal and dialectal names may be found for the people or language as a whole. The Datooga are one of the least educated peoples in Tanzania, and there is almost no literacy in the language; literacy in Swahili is 1%, and no more than 10% of Datooga have more than a smattering of spoken Swahili. However, one or two dialects have been written. ==Varieties== Dialect diversity is great enough to make mutual intelligibility difficult, and Blench (2000) lists East Datooga and West Datooga as distinct languages. Dialects are often assumed to correspond to the seven Datooga tribes, but the speech of the Gisamjanga (Kisamajeng, Gisamjang) and the Barabaig, for example, are very close, and can be considered a single dialect. The other dialects, with alternate spellings, are: *Bajuta *Barabayiiga (Barabaig, Barabayga, Barabaik, Barbaig) *Tsimajeega (Isimijeega) *Rootigaanga (Rotigenga, Rotigeenga) *Buraadiiga (Buradiga, Bureadiga) *Bianjiida (Biyanjiida, Utatu) ''Ethnologue'' 16 mentions several other varieties of uncertain nature: ''Darorajega, Gidang'odiga, Bisiyeda, Daragwajega, Salawajega, Ghumbiega, Mangatiga,'' the last presumably just the Maasai and Swahili name. The suffixes ''-da'' and ''-ga'' on these names and many Datooga nouns are equivalent to English ''the'' . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Datooga language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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