Mahas Nubian

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Mahas Nubian is a variety of the Nobiin language traditionally spoken by Nubian communities along the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Mahas Nubian canonical 2
Mahas Nubians 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nubian language variety
variety of Nobiin
closelyRelatedTo standard Nobiin
country Egypt
Sudan
domain everyday communication in Nubian communities
endangeredStatus endangered language variety
ethnicGroup Nubians
hasAlternativeName Mahas dialect
Mahas variety of Nobiin
hasLinguisticAncestor Old Nubian
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature tonal contrasts
hasSyntacticFeature basic SOV word order
isSpokenBy Mahas Nubians
linked to: Mahas Nubian
languageBranch Eastern Sudanic languages
languageFamily Nilo-Saharan languages
languageGroup Nubian languages
partOf Nobiin language
Nubian languages
region Nubia
spokenAlong Nile River
linked to: Nile
spokenIn northern Sudan
linked to: Northern Sudan

southern Egypt
linked to: Upper Egypt
subclassOf Nobiin
threatenedBy Arabic language dominance
traditionalStatus traditional spoken variety
usedBy Nubian communities
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Nobiin alternativeName Mahas Nubian
Mahas hasAlternativeName Mahas Nubian
Mahas Nubian isSpokenBy Mahas Nubians
linked to: Mahas Nubian