Social:El Hugeirat language

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Short description: Hill Nubian language of Sudan
El Hugeirat
El Hagarat
Native toSudan
RegionNuba Mountains
EthnicityEl Hugeirat people
Native speakers
50 (2007)e25
Nilo-Saharan?
Language codes
ISO 639-3elh
Glottologelhu1238[1]
Lang Status 40-SE.svg
El Hugeirat is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

El Hugeirat (also El Hagarat) is a moribund Hill Nubian language spoken in the northern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is spoken by around 50 people in a few families in the El Hugeirat hills, in the villages of Sija, Bija, Shenshin and Baboy.[2]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "El Hugeirat". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/elhu1238. 
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