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Nyima languages

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Nyima
Nyimang
EthnicityNyimang
Geographic
distribution
Sudan
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
Proto-languageProto-Nyima
Subdivisions
Language codes
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

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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

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References

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  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