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 3
Mahas Nubians 2

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 (5)

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
Mahas Nobiin → associatedPeople → Mahas Nubians ⓘ
linked to: Mahas Nubian
Nobiin language → alternativeName → Mahas Nubian ⓘ