Dair | |
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Thaminyi | |
Native to | Sudan |
Region | Nuba Mountains |
Native speakers | (1,000 cited 1978) [1] |
Nilo-Saharan?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
drb |
Glottolog |
dair1239 |
ELP | Dair |
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. [1]