• all Dinka languages. Recently Akutmɛ̈t Latueŋ Thuɔŋjäŋ (the Dinka Language Development Association) has proposed a unified written grammar of Dinka. The...
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  • Nilotic 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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  • southwestern Kenya, northern Tanzania, and southwestern Ethiopia, it includes the Dinka-Nuer languages, Luo languages, and the Burun languages. Dinka–Nuer-Atwot...
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    languages such as Kalenjin and Datooga Western Nilotic languages such as Luo, Nuer and Dinka Before Greenberg's reclassification, Nilotic was used to...
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    Area, South Sudan, as well as parts of southwestern Ethiopia. They have also been referred as Beir by the Dinka and as Jebe by the Luo and Nuer, among...
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    languages are Kanuri, Fur, Songhay, Nobiin and the widespread Nilotic family, which includes the Luo, Dinka and Maasai. Most Nilo-Saharan languages are...
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  • the ISO 639-3 language code for Dinka. There are five individual language codes assigned: dib – South Central Dinka dik – Southwestern Dinka dip – Northeastern...
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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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    of southern Sudan, after the Dinka and Nuer. Their language is called Dhøg Cøllø, dhøg being the Shilluk word for language and mouth. It belongs to the...
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    the Gold Coast) Bori religion (Hausa people of Northern Nigeria) Dinka religion (Dinka people of South Sudan) Dogon religion (Dogon people of Mali) Edo...
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    of Dinka. Both peoples speak one of the Nilo-Saharan languages and are closely related linguistically. Sixty four languages are standard language in South...
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    with the languages of the Datooga people of Tanzania, the Maasai, Luo, Turkana, Nuer, Dinka among others are classified as Nilotic languages. Linguistic...
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  • indigenous to the area. There is one source that indicates that both the Ngok Dinka to the South and the Messiria to the North admit that the Daju were the...
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  • southeastern South Sudan, northeastern Uganda, northwestern Kenya, and southwestern Ethiopia. In effect they form a dialect cluster consisting of c.2 million...
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  • The Surmic languages are a branch of the Eastern Sudanic language family. Today, the various peoples who speak Surmic languages make their living in a...
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  • closely related to Nobiin, despite their proximity) and Birgid, a language of southwestern Sudan extinct since the 1970s. Nubian lies within the Eastern Sudanic...
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  • Lotuko language Dongotono language Ongamo–Maa Ongamo language Maa languages Maasai language (see also Mukogodo-Maasai) Camus language Samburu language (see...
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  • Ed Daein (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    the neighboring regions, such as the Fur tribe in western Sudan and the Dinka in southern Sudan. Rizeigat were subservient to the Sultan of Darfur and...
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  • Surmic language spoken by the Mursi people who live in the South Omo Zone on the eastern side of the lower Omo valley in southwest Ethiopia. The language is...
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    Luo peoples (category Articles containing Dholuo-language text)
    Southern Sudan, PhD Thesis, UCLA, 1980 Deng F.M. African of Two Worlds; the Dinka in Afro-Arab Sudan, Khartoum, 1978 Re-introducing the "People Without History"...
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    Proto-Afroasiatic homeland (category Articles with Russian-language sources (ru))
    modern Cushitic-speaking populations have additional contributions from Dinka-related and "Neolithic Iranian-related" sources. This type of ancestry was...
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  • region included parts of southwestern Sudan and northwestern South Sudan. In the present era, Fertit is a catch-all word for non-Dinka, non-Arab, non-Luo,...
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  • Ethiopian border. A very small number of Murle live across the border in southwestern Ethiopia. The basic word order for Murle clauses is VSO (verb–subject–object)...
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  • 1.9.a.2 Shilluk, Anuak, Acholi, Lango, Alur, Luo, Jur, Bor II.E.1.9.a.3 Dinka, Nuer II.E.1.9.b Eastern II.E.1.9.b.1 Bari, Fajulu, Kakwa, Mondari II.E...
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  • North Sudan and Far Southern Egypt, along middle Nile river valley banks Dinka (Jieng): mainly in Lakes, Warrap and Unity States, Upper Nile river course...
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  • Bona Malwal (category Dinka people)
    advocacy for self-determination and secession for South Sudan. From the Dinka ethnic group, he pursued his education in journalism and economics in the...
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  • List of contemporary ethnic groups (category CS1 Turkish-language sources (tr))
    group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically...
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    The Kainji languages are a group of about 60 related languages spoken in west-central Nigeria. They form part of the Central Nigerian (Platoid) branch...
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    Sudd (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    The Sudd (as-Sudd or al-Sudd, Dinka: Toc) is a vast swamp in South Sudan, formed by the White Nile's Baḥr al-Jabal section. The Arabic word sudd is derived...
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  • List of countries by ethnic groups (category CS1 Austrian German-language sources (de-at))
    such as citizenship/nationality, ancestry or origin, country of birth, or language are used as alternative indicators. The data in the list are also of variable...
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