Nile Nubian

E230376

Nile Nubian is a modern Nubian language of the Nilo-Saharan family spoken along the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Nile Nubian canonical 3
Nile Nubian dialect continuum 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nubian language
language
modern language
basicWordOrder SOV
closelyRelatedTo Nubians
surface form: Darfur Nubian

Nubians
surface form: Kordofan Nubian
documentedSince medieval period
endangeredStatus vulnerable
geographicDistribution Nile Valley between Aswan and Dongola
hasAncestor Old Nubian
hasDialect Dongolawi
Kenzi
Dongolawi
surface form: Kenzi-Dongolawi

Mattokki
Nobiin
hasHistoricalStage Medieval Nubian
Old Nubian
hasISOStatus coveredByMultipleISO639-3Codes
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
tonal distinctions
hasResearchField Nubian linguistics
hasVariety Nile Nubian self-linksurface differs
surface form: Nile Nubian dialect continuum
influencedBy Arabic
isMinorityLanguageIn Egypt
Sudan
languageBranch Nubians
surface form: Nubian
languageFamily Nilo-Saharan languages
surface form: Nilo-Saharan
spokenAlong Nile
surface form: Nile River
spokenIn Egypt
Sudan
spokenInRegion northern Sudan
Upper Egypt
surface form: southern Egypt
subclassOf Eastern Sudanic language
Nilo-Saharan language
subjectOf Nubian language revitalization efforts
usedByEthnicGroup Nubians
surface form: Egyptian Nubians

Nubians
Nubians
surface form: Sudanese Nubians
usedInDomain daily communication
music
oral tradition
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Old Nubian script (historically)
surface form: Old Nubian script

Referenced by (4)

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

Nobiin alternativeName Nile Nubian
Nubian languages hasBranch Nile Nubian
Mahas languageBranch Nile Nubian
Nile Nubian hasVariety Nile Nubian self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Nile Nubian dialect continuum