Ghulfan (also Gulfan, Uncu, Uncunwee, Wunci, Wuncimbe) is a
Hill Nubian language spoken in the central
Nuba Mountains
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in the south of
Sudan
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. It is spoken by around 33,000 people in the Ghulfan Kurgul and Ghulfan Morung hills, south of Dilling. The villages in which the language is spoken are Dabri, Karkandi, Katang, Kurgul, Namang, Ninya, Moring, Ota, Shigda, and Tarda. It is closely related to
Kadaru, with which it forms the Kadaru-Ghulfan subgroup of Hill Nubian.
''Ethnologue'' reports that the use of Ghulfan is decreasing as younger speakers switch to
Sudanese Arabic
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and that there are no
monolingual
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speakers of the language.
References
Nubian languages
Languages of Sudan
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