Dair (also Dabab, Daier, Thaminyi) is a
moribund
Moribund refers to a literal or figurative state near death.
Moribund may refer to:
* ''Moribund'' (album), a 2006 album by the Norwegian black metal band Koldbrann
* " Le Moribond", a song by Jacques Brel known in English as "Seasons in the Sun ...
Hill Nubian language spoken in the northern
Nuba Mountains in the south of
Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...
. It was spoken by around 1,000 people in 1978 in the Jibaal as-Sitta hills, between
Dilling and Delami.
[
According to a wordlist by German explorer Werner Munzinger, in his 1864 book Ostafrikanische Studien (East African Studies), the Dair language was called Kuliniri by the local people at that time.]
Nubasprache (Nuba Language)
References
Nubian languages
Languages of Sudan
Severely endangered languages
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