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Surmic languages

Surmic is a language family with 6 languages profiled on Glottosphere, spoken in Africa. The largest by number of speakers are Murle, Suri, and Tennet. 6 of them are listed as endangered.

LanguageCountriesSpeakersStatus
MurleEthiopia, South Sudan60,200Vulnerable
SuriEthiopia, South Sudan28,000Vulnerable
TennetSouth Sudan7,000Threatened
NarimSouth Sudan3,620Threatened
MursiEthiopia3,278Threatened
KweguEthiopia300Endangered

Classification and countries: Glottolog (CC BY 4.0). Endangerment status: Endangered Languages Project. Only languages with a profile here are listed, so the family may have more members.