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El Hugeirat language information


El Hugeirat
El Hagarat
Native toSudan
RegionNuba Mountains
EthnicityEl Hugeirat people
Native speakers
50 (2007)[1]
Language family
Nilo-Saharan?
  • Eastern Sudanic
    • Northern Eastern
      • Nubian
        • Central
          • Hill
            • (Unclassified)
              • El Hugeirat
Language codes
ISO 639-3elh
Glottologelhu1238
ELPEl Hugeirat
El Hugeirat is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

El Hugeirat (also El Hagarat) is a moribund Hill Nubian language spoken in the northern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is spoken by around 50 people in a few families in the El Hugeirat hills, in the villages of Sija, Bija, Shenshin and Baboy.[1]

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

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