Mesakin is an ethnic group in the
Nuba Hills
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
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 ...
. The population of this minority possibly exceeds 50,000. They speak
Ngile and
Dengebu,
Niger–Congo languages close enough to be considered dialects.
References
Joshua Project
Nuba peoples
Ethnic groups in Sudan
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