Nuer

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The Nuer are a Nilotic ethnic group of pastoralists primarily inhabiting the floodplains of the Nile in South Sudan and western Ethiopia, known for their cattle-centered culture and segmentary lineage social structure.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Nuer canonical 17
Nuer people 15
Leek Nuer 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nilotic people
ethnic group
anthropologicalStudyBy E. E. Evans-Pritchard
clanStructure exogamous clans
colonialHistory incorporated into Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
conflictInvolvement Second Sudanese Civil War
South Sudanese Civil War
conflictResolution leopard-skin chief mediation
countryOfResidence Ethiopia
South Sudan
culturalFocus cattle-centered culture
economicBase cattle herding
fishing
seasonal cultivation
ethnonym Naath
initiationRite forehead scarification
kinshipSystem patrilineal descent
languageFamily Nilotic languages
Western Nilotic languages
languageSpoken Nuer language
livelihoodRisk cattle raiding
vulnerability to flooding
livestockType cattle
goats
sheep
locatedIn East Africa
South Sudan
western Ethiopia
marriageSystem bridewealth in cattle
neighboringGroup Anuak
Dinka
Shilluk
notableWorkAbout The Nuer (1940)
politicalOrganization lacking centralized authority
populationDistribution major ethnic group in South Sudan
primaryHabitat Sudd wetlands
linked to: Sudd

floodplains of the Nile
region Greater Upper Nile, South Sudan
linked to: Greater Upper Nile

Upper Nile region
linked to: Greater Upper Nile
religion Christianity
traditional Nuer religion
seasonalMovement transhumant migration
socialOrganization acephalous society
segmentary tribal system
socialStructure segmentary lineage system
subsistenceType agro-pastoralism
pastoralism
traditionalDeity Kwoth

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (35)

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

Nuer language spokenBy Nuer people
linked to: Nuer
Nuer language hasDialects Leek Nuer
linked to: Nuer
Nuer language isMajorLanguageOf Nuer people
linked to: Nuer
Sudd inhabitedBy Nuer people
linked to: Nuer
Thok Naath usedBy Nuer people
linked to: Nuer
Thok Naath belongsTo Nuer culture
linked to: Nuer
Jikany Nuer ethnicAssociation Nuer people
linked to: Nuer
Jagei Nuer ethnicGroup Nuer people
linked to: Nuer
Ethiopia–South Sudan border nearbyEthnicGroup Nuer people
linked to: Nuer
Dok Nuer ethnicGroup Nuer people
linked to: Nuer
Lak Nuer spokenBy Nuer people
linked to: Nuer
Lak Nuer ethnicGroupAssociated Nuer people
linked to: Nuer
Bul Nuer spokenBy Nuer people
linked to: Nuer
Nyuong Nuer ethnicAssociation Nuer people
linked to: Nuer
Nilotic peoples includesEthnicGroup Nuer people
linked to: Nuer
Gawar Nuer spokenBy Nuer people
linked to: Nuer
Gawar Nuer ethnicGroup Nuer
Gawar Nuer hasDialectContinuumWith Western Nuer
linked to: Nuer
Western Nilotic languages areSpokenBy Nuer people
linked to: Nuer
Jonglei ethnicGroup Nuer