Nile Nubian

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Nile Nubian is a modern Nubian language of the Nilo-Saharan family spoken along the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Nile Nubian canonical 3
Nile Nubian dialect continuum 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nubian language
language
modern language
basicWordOrder SOV
closelyRelatedTo Darfur Nubian
linked to: Nubians

Kordofan Nubian
linked to: Nubians
documentedSince medieval period
endangeredStatus vulnerable
geographicDistribution Nile Valley between Aswan and Dongola
hasAncestor Old Nubian
hasDialect Dongolawi
Kenzi
Kenzi-Dongolawi
linked to: Dongolawi

Mattokki
Nobiin
hasHistoricalStage Medieval Nubian
Old Nubian
hasISOStatus coveredByMultipleISO639-3Codes
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
tonal distinctions
hasResearchField Nubian linguistics
hasVariety Nile Nubian dialect continuum
linked to: Nile Nubian
influencedBy Arabic
isMinorityLanguageIn Egypt
Sudan
languageBranch Nubian
linked to: Nubians
languageFamily Nilo-Saharan
spokenAlong Nile River
linked to: Nile
spokenIn Egypt
Sudan
spokenInRegion northern Sudan
southern Egypt
linked to: Upper Egypt
subclassOf Eastern Sudanic language
Nilo-Saharan language
subjectOf Nubian language revitalization efforts
usedByEthnicGroup Egyptian Nubians
linked to: Nubians

Nubians
Sudanese Nubians
linked to: Nubians
usedInDomain daily communication
music
oral tradition
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Old Nubian script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

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

Nobiin alternativeName Nile Nubian
Nubian languages hasBranch Nile Nubian
Mahas languageBranch Nile Nubian
Nile Nubian hasVariety Nile Nubian dialect continuum
linked to: Nile Nubian