Hyena and Tortoise - Aŋui ku Areu - Thuɔŋjäŋ (Dinka)

Hyena and Tortoise, a short story about Hyena and Tortoise's friendship. How Tortoise got the hard shell and Hyena got spots all over its fur and why they are no longer friends. Read in Thuɔŋjäŋ (Dinka) on Thuɔŋjäŋ (Dinka) Language Online @Dinkalanguage. This channel is an online platform created to teach Thuɔŋjäŋ (Dinka) through; online classes, reading of Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ’s short stories, folklores, poems, proverbs, young learners’ animated contents and more importantly promoting Early Literacy in Thuɔŋjäŋ (Dinka) language. The Dinka people (Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ) are a Nilotic ethnic group native to South Sudan with a sizable diaspora population abroad.
Linguists divide Dinka into five dialect clusters, but the most comprehensive subdivisions are based on the geographical location of the Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ (Dinkas) people:
1. North-eastern Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ (Dinka): Abiliaŋ, ŋɔŋ Lual-Yak, Doŋjɔl, Luäc, Ageer, Rut, and Thoi
2. North-western Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ (Dinka): Panaruu, ŋɔŋ Deŋ-Kuɔl, Paweny, and Alɔɔr
3. South Central Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ (Dinka) : Aliab, Agaar, Atuɔ̈t, Ciëc and Gɔ̈k.
4. South-eastern Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ (Dinka) : Twïc, Bor, Hɔ̈l, and Nyarweŋ
5. South-western Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ (Dinka) : Twïc, Aguɔk, Apuk, Awan, Kuac, Abiëm, Rek, Lɔu, Luäc, Malual, Paliët, and Paliëupiny.
The name Dinka (Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ, Muɔny-Jäŋ). The people call themselves Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ or Muɔnyjäŋ. The Nuer call them ‘Jiang’; Shilluk call them ‘Jango’; northern Sudanese, the Arabs and Equatorians call them Jiengge; All stemming from Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ (Jieng).
The Dinka people’s autonym of their language is Thuɔŋjäŋ, meaning the language of the people, according to Muller (1877a: 48). The term Dinka which is now referred as people and a language was encountered and given its now-common name by foreigners, i.e. Arabs, Turks, European missionaries, and colonizers, who all came from the North. Due to lack of a standardized orthography, several different spellings of the name of the Dinka people [are] found in the literature, for example: Jäŋ, Jeŋ, Jiëŋ, Jaŋ or Jiëëŋ (Muller above).
As majority of Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ (Dinka) people don’t read and write Thuɔŋjäŋ this channel is designed to promote literacy in Thuɔŋjäŋ language. Piöcku ëë thoŋda (Let’s learn our language) and piööcku thoŋda (let’s teach our language).
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Copyright: Hyena and Tortoise, (English), written by Alice Mulwa, illustrator was Salim Kasamba, published by African Storybook (©African Storybook, 2015) under a CC BY 4.0 license.