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South Sudan is a multilingual country, with over 60 indigenous languages spoken. The official language of the country is English,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Transitional Constitution of the Republic of South Sudan, 2011 ) Part One, 6(2). "English shall be the official working language in the Republic of South Sudan".〕 which was introduced in the region during the colonial era (''see Anglo-Egyptian Sudan''). The indigenous languages with the most speakers are Dinka, Nuer, Bari and Zande. In the capital city of Juba, an Arabic pidgin known as Juba Arabic is used by several thousand people. ==Indigenous languages== There are over 60 indigenous languages spoken in South Sudan. Most of the indigenous languages are classified under the Nilo-Saharan language family; collectively, they represent two of the first order divisions of Nilo-Saharan (Eastern Sudanic and Central Sudanic). The remainder belong to the Ubangi languages of the Niger–Congo language family, and they are spoken in the southwest. The most recent available population statistics for many South Sudan indigenous languages go back to the 1980s. Since then, the war of independence led to many civilian deaths and massive displacement of refugees to Sudan and beyond. Due to the drafting of colonial borders in Africa by European powers during the 19th and 20th centuries, some indigenous languages of South Sudan are spoken in neighboring countries, in some cases more so than in South Sudan. Zande, for example is estimated to have twice as many speakers in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo, while the Banda group of languages may have more speakers in the Central African Republic than in South Sudan. In South Sudan, the languages with the most speakers are Nuer with 740,000 speakers in 1982, and Dinka sociolinguistic language or dialect continuum with perhaps 1.4 million in 1986; these two groups of languages are also closely related to one another. Bari had 420,000 in 2000, and Zande had 350,000 in 1982. Of the Ubangi languages, available figures indicate that Zande is the only one with a substantial number of speakers in South Sudan.〔Ethnologue, (Sudan )〕 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「Languages of South Sudan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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