The Vale languages, or Ruto–Vale, comprise a small number of languages spoken by a few tens of thousands of people in the

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and perhaps

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. They are members of the

Central Sudanic Central Sudanic is a family of about sixty languages that have been included in the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family. Central Sudanic languages are spoken in the Central African Republic, Chad, South Sudan, Uganda, Congo (DRC), Nigeria and ...

language family. The most populous Vale language is Ruto (Lutos), spoken by twenty thousand people. The other clearly related language is

Vale A vale is a type of valley. Vale may also refer to: Places Georgia * Vale, Georgia, a town in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region Norway * Våle, a historic municipality Portugal * Vale (Santa Maria da Feira), a former civil parish in the municipali ...

(with its Tana variety perhaps a third).

Footnotes

References

*Roger Blench (n.d.
Nilo-Saharan language listing
Bongo–Bagirmi languages Languages of the Central African Republic {{ns-lang-stub