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South Sudan

South Sudan is home to 72 languages, spoken across East Africa. Explore them on the map or in the full list below.

Capital Juba

Nationality South Sudanese

Currency South Sudanese Pound (SSP)

Languages 72

Independence Jul 9, 2011

66 active 4 endangered 2 extinct

Where the languages are spoken

Each bubble marks where a language is centred in South Sudan; its size reflects how many people speak it there. Click a bubble for the source.

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Bubbles show a language's approximate centre, not its full extent. Speaker figures are our own estimates where a language lives in one country, and sourced per-country estimates where it crosses borders.

All languages in South Sudan

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