Lafofa is an ethnic group among the
Nuba
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 ...
people of
Sudan. It likely numbers less than 10,000 persons. This minority is mainly
Muslim. Many of them speak
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...
. The traditional language is
Lafofa, a
Niger–Congo language. They live in
South Kurdufan.
Books
* Leif O. Manger: ''From the Mountains to the Plains. The Integration of the Lafofa Nuba into Sudanese Society.'' The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala 1994. Summary
Leif Ole Manger: ''Religion, Identities, and Politics: Defining Muslim Discourses in the Nuba Mountains of the Sudan.'' 1995
External links
The Nuba Mountains Homepage
Nuba peoples
Ethnic groups in Sudan
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