Nuer language

E49681

Nilo-Saharan language Nilotic language Western Nilotic language language

Nuer language is a Western Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Nuer people of South Sudan and western Ethiopia.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nilo-Saharan language → Nilotic language → Western Nilotic language → language →
closelyRelatedTo	Atuot language → Dinka language →
ethnicGroup	Nuer →
hasAlternativeName	Naath language → Thok Naath →
hasDialects	Bul Nuer → Dok Nuer → Gawar Nuer → Jagei Nuer → Jikany Nuer → Lak Nuer → Leek Nuer → Lou Nuer → Nyuong Nuer →
hasGlottologCode	nuer1246 →
hasGlottologName	Nuer →
hasISO639-3Code	nus →
hasLinguisticCode	Glottolog:nuer1246 → ISO 639-3:nus →
hasMorphologicalFeature	number marking on nouns → rich verb inflection →
hasPhonologicalFeature	tone → vowel length contrast →
hasStatus	regional language in South Sudan →
hasSyntacticFeature	basic SVO word order →
isMajorLanguageOf	Nuer people →
isMinorityLanguageIn	Ethiopia →
languageFamily	Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Western Nilotic →
primaryCountry	South Sudan →
region	East Africa → Upper Nile region →
secondaryCountry	Ethiopia →
spokenBy	Nuer people →
spokenIn	Ethiopia → South Sudan → western Ethiopia →
subgroupOf	Western Nilotic branch →
usedFor	education in some schools → local administration → oral tradition → religious practices →
writingSystem	Latin script →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Nilo-Saharan languages → Nilo-Saharan phylum →	includesLanguage
Dinka language →	closelyRelatedTo
Eastern Sudanic languages →	hasNotableLanguage
Geʽez script →	usedForLanguage