Naath

E787819

Naath is the self-designation of the Nuer people, a Nilotic ethnic group primarily inhabiting regions of South Sudan and western Ethiopia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Naath canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnonym ⓘ
associatedWithCountry Ethiopia ⓘ
South Sudan ⓘ
associatedWithEthnicGroup Nuer people ⓘ
linked to: Nuer
associatedWithLanguage Nuer language ⓘ
associatedWithRegion Greater Upper Nile region ⓘ
linked to: Greater Upper Nile

western Ethiopia ⓘ
associatedWithRiver Baro River ⓘ
Sobat River ⓘ
White Nile ⓘ
belongsToEthnolinguisticGroup Nilotic peoples ⓘ
belongsToLargerGroup Eastern Sudanic peoples ⓘ
contrastsWith exonym "Nuer" ⓘ
culturalAssociation cattle-herding culture ⓘ
pastoralist traditions ⓘ
demographicContext one of the largest ethnic groups in South Sudan ⓘ
ethnicCategory Nilotic ethnic group ⓘ
ethnonymFor Nilotic ethnic group ⓘ
ethnonymLanguage Nuer language ⓘ
geopoliticalContext South Sudan–Ethiopia borderlands ⓘ
hasAlternativeNameInEnglish Nuer ⓘ
hasCollectiveMeaning "the people" in Nuer self-reference ⓘ
identityType endonym ⓘ
languageFamilyContext Nilotic peoples ⓘ
linguisticBranch Western Nilotic languages ⓘ
livelihoodContext agro-pastoralism ⓘ
partOfIdentityNarrative Nuer history ⓘ
politicalContext South Sudanese civil conflicts ⓘ
populationCenter Jonglei State ⓘ
Unity State ⓘ
Upper Nile State ⓘ
recognizedBy Ethiopian census and ethnographic records ⓘ
South Sudanese government census categories ⓘ
refersTo Nuer people ⓘ
linked to: Nuer
relatedEthnonym Chollo ⓘ
Jieng ⓘ
religiousContext Christianity among Nuer people ⓘ
Nuer traditional religion ⓘ
linked to: Nuer Religion
selfDesignationOf Nuer people ⓘ
linked to: Nuer
socialStructureContext segmentary lineage system ⓘ
usedBy Nuer people ⓘ
linked to: Nuer
usedInAcademicField African studies ⓘ
anthropology ⓘ
ethnology ⓘ
usedInContext Nilotic cultural identity ⓘ
South Sudanese ethnic identity ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

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

Nuer → ethnonym → Naath ⓘ