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Dair
Thaminyi
Native toSudan
RegionNuba Mountains
Native speakers
(1,000 cited 1978)[1]
Language family
Nilo-Saharan?
  • Eastern Sudanic
    • Northern Eastern
      • Nubian
        • Central
          • Hill
            • (Unclassified)
              • Dair
Language codes
ISO 639-3drb
Glottologdair1239
ELPDair
Dair is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Dair (also Dabab, Daier, Thaminyi) is a moribund Hill Nubian language spoken in the northern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It was spoken by around 1,000 people in 1978 in the Jibaal as-Sitta hills, between Dilling and Delami.[1]

  1. ^ a b Dair at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon

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