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The Nuer people are a Nilotic ethnic group concentrated in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan. They also live in the Ethiopian region of Gambella. The Nuer speak the Nuer language, which belongs to the Nilotic language family. They are the second-largest ethnic group in South Sudan and the largest ethnic group in Gambella, Ethiopia. [4]
Nuerland (Thok Naath: Ro̱l Naath, Arabic:بلد النوير, Nickname: the True Savannah) is the indigenous homeland and traditional territory of the Nuer people, [1] [2] situated largely within South Sudan between the latitudes of 7° and 10° north and longitudes of 29° and 32° east.
The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People is an ethnographical study by the British anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902–73) first published in 1940.
Deng Laka (D. 1907) was a Gaawar Nuer people's prophet of the divinity DIU. He led the Nuer in the battle called Mut Roal (Raid on Arabs) against the Twic Dinka and their Arab allies in which the Nuer emerged victorious.
Nuer people Ngundeng Pyramid ( Thok Naath : Bi̱ɛh ŋundɛŋ or Yi̱k, Arabic : هرم نغوندنغ), also known as Pyramid of Dengkur , was a large mound shrine constructed by the Nuer people's prophet Ngundeng Bong (died 1906) at the end of the nineteenth century and added to by his son Guek Ngundeng (died 1929).
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The Nuer language (Thok Naath, [2] "people's language") is a Nilotic language of the Western Nilotic group. It is spoken by the Nuer people of South Sudan and in western Ethiopia (region of Gambela). The language is very similar to Dinka and Atuot. [3] The language is written with a Latin-based alphabet. There are several dialects of Nuer ...
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