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The Nuba people reside in the foothills of the Nuba Mountains. Villages consist of family compounds. A family compound consists of a rectangular compound enclosing two round mud huts thatched with sorghum stalks facing each other called a shal. The shal is fenced with wooden posts interwoven with straw.
Modern Nubians speak Nubian languages, Eastern Sudanic languages that is part of the Nilo-Saharan family. The Old Nubian language is attested from the 8th century, and is the oldest recorded language of Africa outside of the Afroasiatic family. Nubia consisted of four regions with varied agriculture and landscapes.
The Nuba people are indigenous inhabitants of central Sudan. The Nuba are made up of 50 various indigenous ethnic groups who inhabit the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan state in Sudan, encompassing multiple distinct people that speak different languages which belong to at least two unrelated language families. Since 2011, when the southern part of Sudan became an independent state as South ...
The Moro Nuba are a sub- ethnic group of the Nuba peoples in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan state, in southern Sudan. Many members of this ethnicity are Christians. The population of this ethnic group possibly exceeds 80,000 people.
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Nuba man. Key People: S.F. Nadel. Nuba, inhabitants of the Nuba Hills in the Kordofan region of central-southern Sudan. This region is studded with rugged granite hills that rise sharply from a wide clay plain and vary considerably in size and content. The Nuba peoples live on or near the hills (the plains being mainly occupied by Baqqārah ...
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The Nuba comprise approximately 80% of the Nuba Mountains population. The remaining 20% consist of Baqqara (Arab-speaking cattle-herding) tribes, including Misseriya and Hawazma. Other minor groups are the Jellaba (traders) and Felatta (from West Africa). Traditional religions, Christianity, and Islam are practiced in the Nuba Mountains.
Aug 17, 2018 · English: Nuba people — in central-southern Sudan, near South Sudan . Traditionally of the Nuba Mountains region, within present day South Kurdufan state, in the Kurdufan region of Sudan. People in transition and conflict within predominantly Arabic Sudan, heightened since the 2011 establishment of predominantly black African South Sudan.
