Social:Nyima languages

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This page is about the two languages of Sudan. For the language of Nigeria, see Nyima language.
Short description: Pair of Eastern Sudanic languages of southern Sudan
Nyima
Nyimang
EthnicityNyimang
Geographic
distribution		Sudan
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
Proto-languageProto-Nyima
Subdivisions
  • Ama (Nyimang)
  • Dinik (Afitti)
Glottolognyim1244[1]

The Nyima languages are a pair of languages of Sudan spoken by the Nyimang of the Nuba Mountains. They appear to be most closely related to the Eastern Sudanic languages, especially the northern group of Nubian, Nara and Tama.

Languages

The languages are:

  • Ama (Nyimang) — 160,000 speakers[2]
  • Dinik (Afitti) — 4,000 speakers (2009)[3]

Claude Rilly (2010)[4] includes reconstructions for Proto-Nyima.

See also

  • List of Northern Eastern Sudanic reconstructions (Wiktionary)

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Nyimang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/nyim1244. 
  2. ↑ Ama at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) closed access
  3. ↑ Afitti at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) closed access
  4. ↑ Rilly, Claude. 2010. Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 978-9042922372

Template:Nilo-Saharan families

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