Dinka (natively Thuɔŋjäŋ, Thoŋ ë Jieng or simply Jieng) is a Nilotic dialect cluster spoken by the Dinka people, a major ethnic group of South Sudan. There...

The Dinka people (Dinka: Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ) are a Nilotic ethnic group native to South Sudan. The Dinka mostly live along the Nile, from Mangalla-Bor to Renk, in...

a significant majority of the people belong to either the Dinka people (25.2%) of the South Sudan population, and primary residents of the historic Upper...

(see Anglo-Egyptian Sudan). Some of the indigenous languages with the most speakers include Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk, Bari, and Zande. Both English and Juba...

South Sudan is English. All indigenous languages spoken in South Sudan are national languages of which Dinka, Nuer, Murle, Luo, Ma'di, Otuho, and Zande...

in western Ethiopia (region of Gambela). The language is very similar to Dinka and Atuot. The language is written with a Latin-based alphabet. There...

languages are Kanuri, Fur, Songhay, Nobiin and the widespread Nilotic family, which includes the Luo, Dinka and Maasai. Most Nilo-Saharan languages are...

Ethiopia, it includes the Dinka-Nuer languages, Luo languages, and the Burun languages. Dinka–Nuer-Atwot Luo languages Burun languages Nilotic people constitute...

born to Madute and Okwok Bol in Turalei, Sudan (South Sudan), and raised near Gogrial. Bol's father, a Dinka tribal elder, gave him the name Manute, which...

flags flown in the capital of South Sudan on Independence Day. Flag of the Dinka people Flag of the Bari people South Sudan has ten states, two administrative...

South Sudan is populated by about 64 ethnic groups. The Dinka are the largest ethnic group recorded, followed by the Nuer as the second largest tribe...

central African coast, so as to avoid having to travel through the Sudd. Linguistic evidence shows that over time Nilotic speakers, such as the Dinka/Jieng...

the Dinka language. The Ruweng have largely moved away from the Ngok identity to establish their own separate identity as Ruweng. This makes the Dinka have...

Nilotic languages such as Turkana and Maasai Southern Nilotic languages such as Kalenjin and Datooga Western Nilotic languages such as Luo, Nuer and Dinka Before...

The Luwo language is spoken by the Luwo (or Jur Col), an ethnic group in South Sudan. Jur is exonym adopted from the local Dinka language whose speakers...

language (ɔl Maa), a member of the Nilotic language family that is related to the Dinka, Kalenjin and Nuer languages. Except for some elders living in rural...

xsl – South Slavey din is the ISO 639-3 language code for Dinka. There are five individual language codes assigned: dib – South Central Dinka dik – Southwestern...

Nubian languages are divided into three branches: Northern (Nile), Western (Darfur), and Central. Ethnologue's classifies the Nubian languages as follows:...

Nubian 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...

Atwot people speak the Atwot language (Atwot: Thok Reel), which was first recognized as a separate language from Dinka by anthropologist John Burton...

Their South Sudan counterparts are the Horn peninsula's westernmost Horners. The Nuer people are said to have originally been a section of the Dinka people...

or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority language. Official language A language designated as having a unique legal...

people of South Sudanese origin live. A South Sudanese school was created there that teaches the Nuer and Dinka languages, so that these South Sudanese...

Berhanu Dinka (Amharic: ብርሃኑ ዲንቃ; 4 June 1935 – 8 July 2013) was an Ethiopian diplomat. His distinguished diplomatic career spanned more than five decades...

[màɗí]) is a Central Sudanic language spoken in Uganda and South Sudan. It is one of the Moru–Madi languages. The Madi people refer to their language as Ma'di...

Republic Days December 31, New Year's Eve Ethnic groups in South Sudan include the Nuer, Dinka, Shilluk, Murle, Dongotono, Anuak, Atuot, Burun, Jur Beli...

Maa varieties: Samburu (or Sampur), the language of the Samburu people of central Kenya, Chamus, spoken south and southeast of Lake Baringo (sometimes...

Bari is the Nilotic language of the Karo people, spoken over large areas of Central Equatoria state in South Sudan, across the northwest corner of Uganda...

Thelwall, Robin (1978). "Lexicostatistical relations between Nubian, Daju and Dinka". Études nubiennes: colloque de Chantilly, 2–6 juillet 1975. pp. 265–286...

language, one of the major languages of Uganda. Dinka (1.4 million). The major ethnicity of South Sudan. Acholi (1.2 million). Another Luo language of...