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 language family. The most populous Vale language is

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(Lutos), spoken by twenty thousand people. The other clearly related language is Vale (with its Tana variety perhaps a third).

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References

*Roger Blench (n.d.
Nilo-Saharan language listing
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