Mesakin is an ethnic group in the
Nuba Hills in
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 ...
. The population of this minority possibly exceeds 50,000. They speak
Ngile and
Dengebu,
Niger–Congo languages close enough to be considered dialects.
References
Joshua Project
Nuba peoples
Ethnic groups in Sudan
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