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Uduk, n. (and a.)|ˈʊdʊk|
[Of uncertain origin, perh. f. (Jebel) Uduk, the name of a hill in the area inhabited by the people.]
a. (A member of) a people inhabiting the Upper Nile region of the Sudan. Also attrib. or as adj.
[1906El Kaimakam Nickerson Bey Dar Fung & Burun Country (typescript NRO Dakhlia i. 112/16/102, Nat. Records Office, Khartoum) 25 The northerly villages of these people call themselves Uddug.] 1927J. P. W. Chataway Prelim. Notes Uduk Tribe (typescript NRO Dakhlia i. 112/17/106, Nat. Records Office, Khartoum), The Uduks on the Khor Ahmar (Kurara) however are said..to have been under Gule during the ‘Turkia’. 1932E. E. Evans-Pritchard in Sudan Notes & Rec. XV. 32, I shall refer to these people as Uduk, which they inform me is their correct name... The Uduk live on the Khor Ahmar and Khor Tombak. Ibid., Pirrie could see no relationship between the Uduk language and these Burun languages, and my vocabularies bear out his contention. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. ix. 218 The Uduks..do not use their numerical system for..large numbers. 1979W. James 'Kwanim Pa iv. 136 Meban women are more ‘housewifely’ than their Uduk sisters. 1983L. Hyde Gift vi. 99 The Uduk are matrilineal; neither in structure nor in ceremony is an Uduk bride (or her fertility) given in marriage.
b. The Koman language of these people.
1932C. G. & B. Z. Seligman Pagan Tribes Nilotic Sudan xii. 421 Professor Evans-Pritchard..divides the languages of southern Darfung into the following groups..(2) Uduk, unrelated to other languages of this area. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. ix. 218 The languages of primitive peoples often possess quite a full system of time measurements. Uduk, for example, identifies a number of relatively precise periods. 1977C. F. & F. M. Voegelin Classification & Index World's Lang. 205 Uduk... Sudan: Upper Nile Province. 1979W. James 'Kwanim Pa i. 8 Uduk as a mother tongue is spoken by only about 10,000 people. |