Nyima languages

Nyima
Nyimang
EthnicityNyimang people
Geographic
distribution
Sudan
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
Subdivisions
Glottolognyim1244

The Nyima languages are a pair of languages of Sudan spoken by the Nyimang of the Nuba Mountains that 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[1]
  • Dinik (Afitti) — 4,000 speakers (2009)[2]

Claude Rilly (2010)[3] includes reconstructions for Proto-Nyima.

See also

  • List of Northern Eastern Sudanic reconstructions (Wiktionary)

References

  1. ^ Ama at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Afitti at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  3. ^ Rilly, Claude. 2010. Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 978-9042922372
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