• The Nuer language (Thok Naath) ("people's language") is a Nilotic language of the Western Nilotic group. It is spoken by the Nuer people of South Sudan...
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    The Nuer speak the Nuer language, which belongs to the Nilotic language family. They are the second largest ethnic group in South Sudan. The Nuer people...
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  • Nuer may refer to: Nuer people Nuer language or Thok Nath This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Nuer. If an internal link led...
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  • language and part of the Luo language group, the Burun languages are thought by linguist Roger Blench as a fourth subgroup of Nilotic. The Dinka-Nuer...
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    Eritrea) Kwama language Kwegu language Majang language Me'en language Murle language (also in South Sudan) Mursi language Nuer language (also in South...
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  • The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People is an ethnographical study by the British anthropologist...
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  • unified written grammar of Dinka. The language most closely related to Dinka is the Nuer language. The Luo languages are also closely related. The Dinka...
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    Voiced velar nasal (category Articles containing Nuer-language text)
    word for 'fragment', is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. It is the sound of ng in English sing as well as n before velar consonants...
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    Nilotic languages such as Kalenjin and Datooga Western Nilotic languages such as Luo, Nuer and Dinka Before Greenberg's reclassification, Nilotic was used...
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    Omaha, Nebraska (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
    ethnic groups, including the Nuer, Dinka, Equatorians, Maubans and Nubians. Most Sudanese people in Omaha speak the Nuer language. Other Africans have immigrated...
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    Maasai people (category CS1 Finnish-language sources (fi))
    Maasai speak the Maa language (ɔl Maa), a member of the Nilotic language family that is related to the Dinka, Kalenjin and Nuer languages. Except for some...
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    The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2...
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  • it includes the Dinka-Nuer languages, Luo languages, and the Burun languages. Dinka–Nuer-Atwot Luo languages Burun languages Nilotic people constitute...
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  • is a Western Nilotic language of the Dinka-Nuer group, closely related to the Nuer language and more distantly to the Luo languages. SIL International estimate...
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  • 8°10′N 33°34′E / 8.167°N 33.567°E / 8.167; 33.567 Nuer Zone Amharic (ኑዌር ዞን) Thok Naath (Guäth Cieŋkä naath), The Zone is founded in Gambela Region...
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  • The Nubi language (also called Ki-Nubi, Arabic: كي-نوبي, romanized: kī-nūbī) is a Sudanese Arabic-based creole language spoken in Uganda around Bombo,...
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    Masai) or Maa (English: /ˈmɑːsaɪ/; autonym: ɔl Maa) is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people, numbering...
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  • or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority language. Official language A language designated as having a unique legal...
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    (see Anglo-Egyptian Sudan). Some of the indigenous languages with the most speakers include Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk, Bari, and Zande. Both English and Juba...
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  • The Juba Nuer Massacre occurred on December 15 to 18, 2013, in the capital of South Sudan. The massacre of the Nuer people was carried out by South Sudan...
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    Jebe by the Luo and Nuer, among others. The Murle speak the Murle language, which is part of the Surmic language family. The language cluster includes some...
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    between armed groups of the indigenous Anuak people with armed groups of the Nuer people, and the Ethiopian military. Following resettlement policies implemented...
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  • Ogiek (also Okiek and Akiek) is a Southern Nilotic language of the Kalenjin family spoken or once spoken by the Ogiek peoples, scattered groups of hunter-gatherers...
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    dialects of Northern Sudan; and Jieng (Dinka) and Naadh (Nuer) in Southern Sudan. Many other languages are spoken by a few thousand or even a few hundred people...
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  • the Dinka–Nuer. The Southern Luo varieties are mutually intelligible, and apart from ethnic identity they might be considered a single language.[citation...
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  • languages (Arabic: لُغَات نُوبِيّة, romanized: lughāt nūbiyyah) are a group of related languages spoken by the Nubians. In the past, Nubian languages...
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  • Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. For example, the Nuer of Sudan have an elaborate vocabulary to describe cattle. The Nuer have dozens of names for cattle because...
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  • Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-19-928675-1. Hutchinson, Sharon Elaine (1996). Nuer dilemmas: coping with money, war, and the state. University of California...
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  • Regions with significant populations Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto. Languages English Nuer language Religion Christian and traditional religions of South Sudan...
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  • is a language spoken in western Kenya and eastern Uganda by the Pokot people. Pökoot is classified to the northern branch of the Kalenjin languages found...
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