Social:Dair language
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Short description: Moribund Nubian language of Sudan
| Dair | |
|---|---|
| Thaminyi | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | Nuba Mountains |
Native speakers | (1,000 cited 1978)e25 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | drb |
| Glottolog | dair1239[1] |
 Dair is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Dair (also Dabab, Daier, Thaminyi) is a moribund Hill Nubian language spoken in the northern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It was spoken by around 1,000 people in 1978 in the Jibaal as-Sitta hills, between Dilling and Delami.[2]
According to a wordlist by German explorer Werner Munzinger, in his 1864 book Ostafrikanische Studien (East African Studies), the Dair language was called Kuliniri by the local people at that time.[3]
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Dair". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/dair1239.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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