Social:Dair language

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Short description: Moribund Nubian language of Sudan
Dair
Thaminyi
Native toSudan
RegionNuba Mountains
Native speakers
(1,000 cited 1978)e25
Nilo-Saharan?
Language codes
ISO 639-3drb
Glottologdair1239[1]
Lang Status 40-SE.svg
Dair is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Dair (also Dabab, Daier, Thaminyi) is a moribund Hill Nubian language spoken in the northern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It was spoken by around 1,000 people in 1978 in the Jibaal as-Sitta hills, between Dilling and Delami.[2]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Dair". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/dair1239. 
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