The Heiban Nuba are a people of 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, ...
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 ...
.
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
The Kordofanian languages are a geographic grouping of five language groups spoken in the Nuba Mountains of the Kurdufan, Sudan: Talodi–Heiban languages, Lafofa languages, Rashad languages, Katla languages and Kadu languages. The first four gro ...
group, of the Nuba Mountains, which is in the major family of
Niger–Congo languages.
See also
*
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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