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Tese (Teisei) is an
Eastern Sudanic language In most classifications, the Eastern Sudanic languages are a group of nine families of languages that may constitute a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Eastern Sudanic languages are spoken from southern Egypt to northern Tanzania. Nub ...
spoken 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 ...
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 ...
. ''Ethnologue'' lists
Keiga Jirru The Keiga Jirru are a Nuba peoples ethnic group in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan state, in southern Sudan. They speak Tese, in the Nilo-Saharan The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by some 50–6 ...
as an alternate name.


References


Temein languages
(Roger Blench 2007)


External links


Tese basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
Critically endangered languages Temein languages {{ns-lang-stub