Nara people

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The Nara people are an indigenous ethnic group of western Eritrea, traditionally agro-pastoralists with their own Nara language and distinct cultural practices.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Nara people canonical 12

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (36)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group
indigenous people
associatedRiverRegion Gash River area
Setit River area
continent Africa
country Eritrea
culturalArea Horn of Africa
ethnolinguisticFamily Nilo-Saharan (proposed, for Nara language)
hasAutonym Nara
hasCulturalPractice distinct marriage customs
oral storytelling
traditional dance
traditional music
historicalStatus marginalized group in Eritrea
indigenousTo western Eritrea
language Nara language
lifestyle agro-pastoralist
neighboringGroup Kunama people
Tigre people
Tigray-Tigrinya people
surface form: Tigrinya people
populationStatus small population size
recognizedAsMinorityIn Eritrea
region western Eritrea
religion Islam
traditionalCrops millet
sesame
sorghum
traditionalEconomy livestock herding
subsistence farming
traditionalHousing rural village settlements
traditionalLivestock cattle
goats
sheep
traditionalOccupation agriculture
pastoralism
usesWritingSystem Latin script (for Nara language, in modern use)

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (12)

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

Eritrea majorEthnicGroup Nara people
Kunama people neighboringGroups Nara people
Nara usedBy Nara people
Eritrean ethnicDiversityContext Nara people
western Eritrea traditionalHomelandOf Nara people
subject surface form: Western Eritrea
western Eritrea ethnicGroupPresent Nara people
subject surface form: Western Eritrea
Setit River area culturalRegionFor Nara people