Nobiin language

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The Nobiin language is a Nubian language of the Nilo-Saharan family spoken along the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan, known for its rich oral tradition and historical significance as a descendant of Old Nubian.

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Nobiin language canonical 1

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instanceOf Nubian language
language
alternativeName Fadicca NERFINISHED
Fadidja NERFINISHED
Mahas NERFINISHED
Mahas Nubian NERFINISHED
Nile Nubian NERFINISHED
ancestor Old Nubian NERFINISHED
descendedFrom Old Nubian NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Nobiin people NERFINISHED
Nubians NERFINISHED
geographicDistribution Nubian communities near Aswan
Nubian villages along Lake Nasser
glottocode nobi1241
hasDialects Fadicca dialect
Mahas dialect
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
case marking on nouns
consonant length (gemination)
postpositions
rich vowel length distinctions
subject–object–verb order
tonal language
verb-final basic word order
hasStatus endangered language
minority language in Egypt
minority language in Sudan
hasWritingSystem Arabic script NERFINISHED
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Old Nubian script NERFINISHED
historicalScript Coptic-based Old Nubian script
ISO639-3 fia
knownFor preservation of Old Nubian features
rich oral tradition
traditional songs and poetry
languageBranch Nubian NERFINISHED
languageFamily Nilo-Saharan NERFINISHED
nativeName Nòòbíín NERFINISHED
spokenAlong Nile River NERFINISHED
spokenIn Egypt NERFINISHED
Sudan
spokenInRegion northern Sudan NERFINISHED
southern Egypt
subfamilyOf Nubian languages NERFINISHED
subjectOf comparative Nubian linguistic studies
usedAlongside Arabic NERFINISHED
usedIn daily communication among Nubians
folklore
oral storytelling

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Mahas Nubian partOf Nobiin language