Mahas

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Mahas is an alternative name for the Nobiin language, a Nubian language spoken primarily along the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Mahas canonical 2
Fadicca-Mahas 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nobiin language
Nubian language
language
alternativeNameOf Nobiin
closelyRelatedTo Dongolawi
Kenzi
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Nubians
hasAlternativeName Fadicca
Fadicca-Mahas
Mahas Nobiin
Mahas Nubian
hasCaseSystem postpositional cases
hasGlottocode nobi1244
hasISO6393Code fia
hasLinguasphereCode 05-NFA-a
hasLinguisticAncestor Old Nubian
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNameVariant Nobiin
hasNumberCategory collective
plural
singular
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
tonal distinctions
hasWordOrder SOV
historicalRegion Lower Nubia
Upper Nubia
inContactWithLanguage Arabic
languageBranch Nile Nubian
partOfLanguageFamily Eastern Sudanic languages
Nilo-Saharan languages
Nubian languages
primaryRegion Nubia
regionAlongNile between Aswan and Dongola
spokenAlong Nile
surface form: Nile River
spokenIn Egypt
Sudan
spokenInRegion northern Sudan
Upper Egypt
surface form: southern Egypt
usedAs vernacular language
usedBy Nubian communities in Egypt
Nubian communities in Sudan
usedInDomain folklore
music
oral tradition
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Nobiin alternativeName Mahas
Nobiin alternativeName Mahas
this entity surface form: Fadicca-Mahas