Mahas

E202799

Mahas is an alternative name for the Nobiin language, a Nubian language spoken primarily along the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Mahas canonical 7
Fadicca-Mahas 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nobiin language ⓘ
Nubian language ⓘ
language ⓘ
alternativeNameOf Nobiin ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Dongolawi ⓘ
Kenzi ⓘ
endangeredStatus vulnerable ⓘ
ethnicGroup Nubians ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Fadicca ⓘ
Fadicca-Mahas ⓘ
Mahas Nobiin ⓘ
Mahas Nubian ⓘ
hasCaseSystem postpositional cases ⓘ
hasGlottocode nobi1244 ⓘ
hasISO6393Code fia ⓘ
hasLinguasphereCode 05-NFA-a ⓘ
hasLinguisticAncestor Old Nubian ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative ⓘ
hasNameVariant Nobiin ⓘ
hasNumberCategory collective ⓘ
plural ⓘ
singular ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
tonal distinctions ⓘ
hasWordOrder SOV ⓘ
historicalRegion Lower Nubia ⓘ
Upper Nubia ⓘ
inContactWithLanguage Arabic ⓘ
languageBranch Nile Nubian ⓘ
partOfLanguageFamily Eastern Sudanic languages ⓘ
Nilo-Saharan languages ⓘ
Nubian languages ⓘ
primaryRegion Nubia ⓘ
regionAlongNile between Aswan and Dongola ⓘ
spokenAlong Nile River ⓘ
linked to: Nile
spokenIn Egypt ⓘ
Sudan ⓘ
spokenInRegion northern Sudan ⓘ
southern Egypt ⓘ
linked to: Upper Egypt
usedAs vernacular language ⓘ
usedBy Nubian communities in Egypt ⓘ
Nubian communities in Sudan ⓘ
usedInDomain folklore ⓘ
music ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ
writingSystem Arabic script ⓘ
Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nobiin → alternativeName → Mahas ⓘ
Nobiin → alternativeName → Fadicca-Mahas ⓘ
linked to: Mahas
Fadicca-Mahas → hasEthnonym → Mahas ⓘ
Fadicca → alternativeNameOf → Mahas ⓘ
Fadicca → hasEthnonym → Mahas ⓘ