The Dilling are an ethnic group of the
Nuba peoples
The Nuba people are indigenous inhabitants of central Sudan. Nuba are various indigenous ethnic groups who inhabit the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan state in Sudan, encompassing multiple distinct people that speak different languages which b ...
. The Dilling number several thousand and live mainly in the
Nuba Mountains
The Nuba Mountains ( ar, جبال النوبة), also referred to as the Nuba Hills, is an area located in South Kordofan, Sudan. The area is home to a group of indigenous ethnic groups known collectively as the Nuba peoples. In the Middle Ages, ...
of
South Kordofan state, in southern
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
.
Language
The
Dilling language
Dilling (also Delen, Warkimbe; autonym: ''Warki'') is a Hill Nubian language spoken in the northwestern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is spoken by around 11,000 people in the town of Dilling and surrounding hills, including Kudur. ''Eth ...
is one of the
Nubian languages
The Nubian languages ( ar, لُغَات نُوبِيّة, lughāt nūbiyyah) are a group of related languages spoken by the Nubians. They form a branch of the Eastern Sudanic languages, which is part of the wider Nilo-Saharan phylum. Initially, ...
of the
Nilo-Saharan
The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by some 50–60 million people, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet. T ...
family. The Dilling language has become partially arabized.
See also
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Index: Nuba peoples
External links
The Nuba Mountains Homepage
Nuba peoples
Ethnic groups in Sudan
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