Nobiin

E40530

Eastern Sudanic language Nile-Nubian language Nubian language language

Nobiin is a Nile-Nubian language spoken primarily by Nubian communities in southern Egypt and northern Sudan, known for its ancient roots and rich oral tradition.

Aliases (1)

Kenzi ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Eastern Sudanic language → Nile-Nubian language → Nubian language → language →
alternativeName	Fadicca → Fadicca-Mahas → Mahas → Mahas Nubian → Nile Nubian →
closelyRelatedTo	Dongolawi → Kenzi →
endangeredStatus	vulnerable →
ethnicGroup	Nubians →
family	Nilo-Saharan →
hasAncestor	Nile-Nubian → Old Nubian →
hasAncientRoots	true →
hasCommunityRevitalizationEfforts	true →
hasConsonantLengthContrast	true →
hasDialects	true →
hasGrammaticalFeature	case marking by suffixes → postpositions →
hasLoanwordsFrom	Arabic →
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length → emphatic consonants →
hasRichOralTradition	true →
hasTone	true →
hasVowelLengthContrast	true →
influencedBy	Arabic →
ISO639-3	fia →
languageStatus	minority language →
morphologicalType	agglutinative →
primaryWordOrder	SOV →
region	northern Sudan → southern Egypt →
spokenAlong	Nile River →
spokenIn	Egypt → Sudan →
subclassOf	Nile-Nubian languages → Nubian languages →
taughtIn	community-based language classes →
usedBy	Nubian communities →
usedIn	folklore → oral literature → songs → storytelling →
writingSystem	Arabic script → Latin script → historically Old Nubian script →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Nubians → Nubians ("Kenzi") →	language
Eastern Sudanic languages →	hasNotableLanguage