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Lafofa is an ethnic group among the Nuba people of
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 ...
. It likely numbers less than 10,000 persons. This minority is mainly
Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
. Many of them speak Arabic. The traditional language is Lafofa, a Niger–Congo language. They live in
South Kurdufan South Kordofan ( ar, جنوب كردفان ') is one of the 18 wilayat or states of Sudan. It has an area of 158,355 km² and an estimated population of approximately 1,100,000 people (2000). Leif Ole Manger: ''Religion, Identities, and Politics: Defining Muslim Discourses in the Nuba Mountains of the Sudan.'' 1995


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The Nuba Mountains Homepage
Nuba peoples Ethnic groups in Sudan {{Sudan-ethno-group-stub