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Language code: din

Technical information about ISO 639 language code din

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The table below provides technical details for the Dinka language, designated by the din code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

din

Name

Dinka

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Northeastern DinkaNorthwestern DinkaSouth Central DinkaSoutheastern DinkaSouthwestern Dinka
Related languages
NuerShillukAtuot (Reel)Anuak
Key facts
Belongs to the Western Nilotic branch of the Nilo-Saharan familyHas a complex tone system (four contrastive tones) combined with three vowel phonation types (modal, breathy, creaky)Written in a Latin-based alphabet where diacritics mark both tone and vowel quality/lengthMutual intelligibility drops across the five major dialect zones, so speakers often switch to Sudanese Arabic as a lingua francaRich oral poetry tradition in which tone and vowel quality carry semantic as well as aesthetic weight.
Sample phrase

Màrëŋ, yïn mèn a̱cï jɔ̈ŋ?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Dinka language, identified by the code din, falls under the 'Macrolanguage' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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