The Heiban Nuba are a people of the
Nuba Mountains in
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 ...
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There are less than 50,000 Heiban, many of whom are Christian.
Language
The
Heiban languages Heiban may refer to:
* Heiban people, a people of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, Sudan
* Heiban languages, spoken in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan
* A Japanese pitch accent
is a feature of the Japanese language that distinguishes words ...
belong to
Kordofanian languages group, of the Nuba Mountains, which is in the major family of
Niger–Congo languages.
See also
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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 ...
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Index: Nuba peoples
References
Joshua Project
Nuba peoples
Ethnic groups in Sudan
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