Back لغات نوبية Arabic اللغه النوبيه ARZ Llingües nubies AST Yezhoù nubiek BR Llengües nubianes Catalan Nubische Sprachen German Nubia lingvo EO Lenguas nubias Spanish زبانهای نوبی FA Nubialaiset kielet Finnish
| Nubian | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Egypt, Sudan |
| Ethnicity | Nubian |
Native speakers | 200,000–1 million (cited 1977)[1] |
| Linguistic classification | Nilo-Saharan? |
| Proto-language | Proto-Nubian |
| Subdivisions |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 / 5 | nub |
| Glottolog | nubi1251 |
The Nubian languages are a group of related languages spoken by the Nubians. 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.
- ^ Rouchdy, Aleya (1980). "Languages in Contact: Arabic-Nubian". Anthropological Linguistics. 22 (8): 334–344.
- ^ "Language and ethnic statistics in 20th century Sudanese censuses and surveys". Retrieved 13 September 2023.
- ^ Thelwall, Robin (3 February 2002). "Nuba Language and History". Nuba Survival. 1 (3). Retrieved 17 August 2022.