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Kresh is a small family of South Sudan. Although it is generally considered a branch of the Central Sudanic languages, Boyeldieu (2010) judges that this has yet to be demonstrated satisfactorily.〔 Kresh is generally considered a dialect cluster, but it is dialectically diverse. Blench (2000 ms) lists five Kresh languages, four of which (Kresh, Gbaya, Woro, and Dongo) ''Ethnologue'' counts among seven dialects of Kresh/Gbaya (or eight, counting Aja). Kresh and Gbaya, however, are merely exonym and endonym, not coherent languages; they are equivalent to five varieties listed by ''Ethnologue''. ''Ethnologue'' notes that the varieties are not mutually intelligible, but that Kresh-Ndogo (Gbaya-Ndogo) is universally understood as a prestige variety, and that Naka is also commonly understood as the most populous variety. Blench (2000) also includes Furu (Bagero) as a Kresh language, though ''Ethnologue'' classifies it as Kara. In addition, Aja is spoken by ethnic Kresh, but though it remains Kresh grammatically, it has been relexified by the unrelated Banda languages (Santandrea 1976).〔 ==Language varieties== Blench (2000, 2012) distinguishes ''Kresh, Woro, Gbaya, Furu, Dongo,'' and ''Aja''. However, the principal Kresh 'dialects' are not mutually intelligible, and ''Ethnologue'' lists them as ''Naka (Kresh-Boro), Gbaya-Ndogo (Kresh-Ndogo), Gbaya-Ngbongbo (Kresh-Hofra), Gbaya-Gboko, Orlo (Woro), Gbaya-Dara,'' and ''Dongo'' (with Furu and Aja listed separately): *Aja *Kresh-Ndogo (Gbaya-Ndogo) *Naka (Kresh-Boro) *Kresh-Hofra (Gbaya-Ngbongbo) *Gboko (Gbaya-Gboko) *Dara (Gbaya-Dara) *Woro (Orlo) *Dongo *Furu The names ''Gbaya'' and ''Dongo'' are ambiguous, as they are also used for unrelated Ubangian languages. 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「Kresh languages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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