For the languages of Southern Africa and Papua New Guinea, see Naro language and Lala language (Papua New Guinea).
Nara
Nara-Bana
Native to
Eritrea
Region
Gash-Barka
Ethnicity
Nara
Native speakers
73,000 (2022)[1]
Language family
Nilo-Saharan?
Eastern Sudanic
Northern Eastern
Nara
Dialects
Higir
Koyta
Santora
Mogoreeb
Writing system
Latin
Official status
Recognised minority language in
Eritrea
Language codes
ISO 639-3
nrb
Glottolog
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Linguistic map of Eritrea; Nara is spoken in the sea-blue region in the west
The Nara (Nera) or Barea (Barya) language is spoken by the Nara people in an area just to the north of Barentu in the Gash-Barka Region of western Eritrea.[2] The language is often confused with Kunama, which is at best only distantly related.
The endangerment status of Nara is unclear. According to Glottolog it is not endangered, but according to Tsige Hailemichael, the "...Nara language is in danger of quickly disappearing."[3]
Nara has been classified as Northern Eastern Sudanic by Rilly (2009:2),[4] but Glottolog considers the evidence unpersuasive and classifies Nara as an isolate.[5]
^Nara at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^"Ethnologue report for language code:nrb". Retrieved 2006-08-31.
^Hailemichael, Tsige (2005-11-05). "Once Upon a Time… in Nara Language". Retrieved 2006-08-31.
^Rilly, Claude. 2009. From the Yellow Nile to the Blue Nile: The quest for water and the diffusion of Northern East Sudanic languages from the fourth to the first millennia BCE. Paper presented at ECAS 2009 (3rd European Conference on African Studies, Panel 142: African waters – water in Africa, barriers, paths, and resources: their impact on language, literature and history of people) in Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009.
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