Dair language

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]

Dair
Thaminyi
Native toSudan
RegionNuba Mountains
Native speakers
(1,000 cited 1978)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3drb
Glottologdair1239
ELPDair
Dair is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

References

  1. Dair at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) closed access
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