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.
| Nyima | |
|---|---|
| Nyimang | |
| Geographic distribution | Sudan |
| Ethnicity | Nyimang |
| Linguistic classification | Nilo-Saharan? |
| Proto-language | Proto-Nyima |
| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | nyim1244 |
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Languages
editThe languages are:
Claude Rilly (2010)[3] includes reconstructions for Proto-Nyima.
See also
edit- List of Northern Eastern Sudanic reconstructions (Wiktionary)
References
edit- ^ Ama at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Afitti at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Rilly, Claude. 2010. Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 978-9042922372
