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Hill Nubians are a group of Nubian peoples who inhabit the northern Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan state, Sudan. They speak the Hill Nubian languages . Despite their scattered presence and linguistic diversity, they all refer to themselves as Ajang and call their language Ajangwe , "the Ajang language".
Glottolog classifies Hill Nubian (Kordofan Nubian) into two branches: Eastern Kordofan Nubian and Western Kordofan Nubian, containing three and four languages respectively. [4] Ethnologue , however, only groups Kadaru and Ghulfan together, leaving the rest unclassified within Hill Nubian, as follows: [ 5 ]
Estimates of the Nuba population vary widely; the Sudanese government estimated that they numbered 2.07 million in 2003. [ 5 ] [ better source needed ] The term Nuba should not be confused with the Nubians , an unrelated ethnic group speaking the Nubian languages living in northern Sudan and southern Egypt, [ 6 ] although the Hill Nubians , who ...
Nubian languages. Hill Nubian; Notes: Eastern Sudanic is a large division of Nilo-Saharan spoken throughout the upper Nile region. Kir–Abbaian and Astaboran are the two branches of Eastern Sudanic, roughly distributed in the north and south of the region, respectively. The Nubian languages are spoken mostly in northern Sudan and southern Egypt.
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The Nubian languages are a group of related languages spoken by the Nubians. Nubian languages were spoken throughout much of Sudan, but as a result of Arabization they are today mostly limited to the Nile Valley between Aswan (southern Egypt) and Al Dabbah. In the 1956 Census of Sudan there were 167,831 speakers of Nubian languages. [2]
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