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. Talodi is spoken in Tasomi and Tata villages (''Ethnologue'', 22nd edition).

Grammar

Noun Classes

As most languages of the Talodi Family, it uses noun classes to indicate if the word is in the singular or a plural form. There exist both two-class and one-class gender groups, and in all of them mostly consonant prefixes are used as an indicator. Following is presented the noun class chart of Talodi after Schadeberg (1981: 50–51):

References

Critically endangered languages Talodi languages {{Kordofanian-lang-stub