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{{distinguish|Gbaya languages}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Kresh
|altname=Kresh-Ndogo
|states=[[South Sudan]]
|speakers=unknown: 16,000 including Dongo
|date=2013
|ref=e18<!--2013 figure from Ethnologue 18 is a new figure that happens to be the same as the one from the 1980s-->
|familycolor=Nilo-Saharan
|fam2=[[Central Sudanic languages|Central Sudanic]]?
|fam3=[[Birri language|Birri]]–Kresh
|fam4=[[Kresh languages]]
|iso3=krs
|iso3comment=(Kresh–Gbaya–Woro–Dongo)
|glotto=gbay1288
|glottorefname=Kresh-Woro
}}

'''Kresh''', also known ambiguously as '''Gbaya''', is a [[Central Sudanic language]] of [[South Sudan]].

[[Naomi Baki]], a native Kresh speaker who became a French citizen in 2015, has released an autobiography in 2013 in which she describes her Kresh Gbaya environment in Raga County.<ref>[[Naomi Baki]], '[https://www.amazon.ca/suis-encore-vivante-Naomi-Baki/dp/2204101079 'Je suis encore vivante''] (Paris, Le Cerf, 2013). The title's meaning in English is "Still Alive".</ref>

==Dialects==
The Kresh varieties have varying mutually intelligible, with northernmost [[Dongo language|Dongo]] being most distinct and southernmost Woro being next, though mutually intelligible with Kresh proper. 'Kresh' is what the people are called by their neighbors; they call themselves ''Gbaya'', an ambiguous name in English, shared with many of the unrelated [[Gbaya languages]].
* Ndogo (Gbaya) 
* Naka (Boro, Kpara) 
* Kresh-Hofra (Gbaya-Ngbongbo) 
* Woro (Orlo)

Ndogo is the prestige dialect, and Naka the most populous.

==Locations==
A 2013 survey reported that ethnic Kresh reside in Dar Seid Bandas and Kata [[Boma (administrative division)|Bomas]], Ringi [[Payam (administrative division)|Payam]], [[Raja County]], [[South Sudan]].<ref name="VAS">{{cite web|title=Village Assessment Survey|url=https://iomsouthsudan.org/tracking/vas|publisher=[[International Organization for Migration]] South Sudan|date=2013}}</ref>

==References==
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*[http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Nilo-Saharan/General/NS%20language%20list.pdf Blench (2000 ms)]

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{{Central Sudanic languages}}

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[[Category:Central Sudanic languages]]
[[Category:Languages of South Sudan]]
[[Category:Kresh languages]]


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