Africa · ISO 639-3 ikx · Glottocode ikkk1242
Ik
Ik adds to Africa a threatened language classified in the Kuliak family; CLDR assigns Latin as its likely script.
- Language family
- Kuliak
- Likely script
- Latin (Latn)
- Source status
- threatened
- Macroarea
- Africa
- Source country codes
- KE · UG
- Reference point
- 3.614, 34.251
Open research question
How is Ik named and used by different generations, and which forms of transmission do participants themselves consider important?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.