Nuer

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The Nuer are a Nilotic ethnic group of pastoralists primarily inhabiting the floodplains of the Nile in South Sudan and western Ethiopia, known for their cattle-centered culture and segmentary lineage social structure.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Nuer canonical 17
Nuer people 15
Leek Nuer 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nilotic people
ethnic group
anthropologicalStudyBy E. E. Evans-Pritchard
clanStructure exogamous clans
colonialHistory incorporated into Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
conflictInvolvement Second Sudanese Civil War
South Sudanese Civil War
conflictResolution leopard-skin chief mediation
countryOfResidence Ethiopia
South Sudan
culturalFocus cattle-centered culture
economicBase cattle herding
fishing
seasonal cultivation
ethnonym Naath
initiationRite forehead scarification
kinshipSystem patrilineal descent
languageFamily Nilotic languages
Western Nilotic languages
languageSpoken Nuer language
livelihoodRisk cattle raiding
vulnerability to flooding
livestockType cattle
goats
sheep
locatedIn East Africa
South Sudan
western Ethiopia
marriageSystem bridewealth in cattle
neighboringGroup Anuak
Dinka
Shilluk
notableWorkAbout The Nuer (1940)
politicalOrganization lacking centralized authority
populationDistribution major ethnic group in South Sudan
primaryHabitat Sudd
surface form: Sudd wetlands

floodplains of the Nile
region Greater Upper Nile
surface form: Greater Upper Nile, South Sudan

Greater Upper Nile
surface form: Upper Nile region
religion Christianity
traditional Nuer religion
seasonalMovement transhumant migration
socialOrganization acephalous society
segmentary tribal system
socialStructure segmentary lineage system
subsistenceType agro-pastoralism
pastoralism
traditionalDeity Kwoth

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

Nuer language spokenBy Nuer
this entity surface form: Nuer people
Nuer language hasDialects Nuer
this entity surface form: Leek Nuer
Nuer language isMajorLanguageOf Nuer
this entity surface form: Nuer people
Sudd inhabitedBy Nuer
this entity surface form: Nuer people
Thok Naath usedBy Nuer
this entity surface form: Nuer people
Thok Naath belongsTo Nuer
this entity surface form: Nuer culture
Jikany Nuer ethnicAssociation Nuer
this entity surface form: Nuer people
Jagei Nuer ethnicGroup Nuer
this entity surface form: Nuer people
Ethiopia–South Sudan border nearbyEthnicGroup Nuer
this entity surface form: Nuer people
Dok Nuer ethnicGroup Nuer
this entity surface form: Nuer people
Lak Nuer spokenBy Nuer
this entity surface form: Nuer people
Lak Nuer ethnicGroupAssociated Nuer
this entity surface form: Nuer people
Bul Nuer spokenBy Nuer
this entity surface form: Nuer people
Nyuong Nuer ethnicAssociation Nuer
this entity surface form: Nuer people
Nilotic peoples includesEthnicGroup Nuer
this entity surface form: Nuer people
Gawar Nuer spokenBy Nuer
this entity surface form: Nuer people
Gawar Nuer ethnicGroup Nuer
Gawar Nuer hasDialectContinuumWith Nuer
this entity surface form: Western Nuer
Western Nilotic languages areSpokenBy Nuer
this entity surface form: Nuer people
Jonglei ethnicGroup Nuer