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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sudan is a
multilingual country with Sudanese Arabic dominating in the North, and
other languages in the South. In the 2005 constitution of the Republic
of Sudan, the official languages of Sudan are literary Arabic and
English. In the South of Sudan, the Dinka language is spoken in many
villages. The total number of languages used or spoken in Sudan is 142.
Of those, 134 are currently spoken and lived languages and 8 languages
are extinct. Sudanese Arabic is the most widely spoken language in the
country, and is dominant in much of the north. It is the result of a
mixing of Egyptian Arabic and Arabic from the Arabian peninsula with
local languages. This has resulted in a variety of Arabic that is unique
to Sudan, reflecting the way in which the country has been influenced by
both African and Arabian cultures. Other languages in the north include
Nubian languages and Beja or Bedawi.
