Not to be confused with Nubi language, and the Nubia language of Papua New Guinea.
Nubian Languages
Ethnicity
Nubian
Geographic distribution
Egypt, Sudan
Native speakers
200,000–1 million
(cited 1977)[1]
Linguistic classification
Nilo-Saharan?
Eastern Sudanic
Northern Eastern
Nubian Languages
Subdivisions
Central
Northern
Western
ISO 639-2 / 5
nub
Glottolog
nubi1251
The Nubian languages (Arabic: لُغَات نُوبِيّة, romanized: lughāt nūbiyyah) are a group of related languages spoken by the Nubians. In the past, Nubian languages were spoken throughout much of Sudan, but as a result of Arabization they are today mostly limited to the Nile Valley between Aswan (southern Egypt) and Al Dabbah. In the 1956 Census of Sudan there were 167,831 speakers of Nubian languages.[2] Nubian is not to be confused with the various Nuba languages spoken in villages in the Nuba mountains and Darfur.[3]
More recent classifications, such as those in Glottolog, consider that Nubian languages form a primary language family. Older classifications consider Nubian to be a branch of the Nilo-Saharan phylum, a proposal that has been losing support among linguists due to a lack of supporting data.
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Makuria and Alodia. Old Nubian may be regarded was the standard written form in all three kingdoms. Of the living Nubianlanguages, it is modern Nobiin which...
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spoken language for most people. In the far-Southern Upper Nile Valley, around Kom Ombo and Aswan, there are about 300,000 speakers of Nubianlanguages, mainly...
The Late Latin word may be derived from an unidentified African language. The Nubian word kaddîska 'wildcat' and Nobiin kadīs are possible sources or...
with the Nubians, an unrelated ethnic group speaking the Nubianlanguages living in northern Sudan and southern Egypt, although the Hill Nubians, who live...
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Darfur, Sudan. They speak Midob, one of the Nubianlanguages (part of the larger family of Nilo-Saharan languages). The population of this ethnic group is...
central vowel ə only appears in Midob, not in other Nubianlanguages. Midob is a tonal language with two registers: High and Low. Tone is both lexical...
Dongolawi is a Nubianlanguage of northern Sudan. It is spoken by a minority of the Danagla people in the Nile Valley, from roughly (south of Kerma) upstream...
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sparse. Apart from Nubian, a multitude of languages were spoken throughout the kingdom. In the Nuba mountains several Kordofanian languages occurred together...
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and via writings after many Nubians adopted the Egyptian language during the Napatan Period. Excavations of early Nubian societies also uncovered hints...
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