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Dinka (other)
The Dinka are an East African ethnic group. Dinka may also refer to: * Dinka language, a group of languages spoken by the Dinka people **Dinka alphabet The Dinka alphabet is used by South Sudanese Dinka people. The written Dinka language is based on the ISO basic Latin alphabet, but with some added letters adapted from the International Phonetic Alphabet. The current orthography is derived from th ..., the alphabet in which the Dinka language is written * Dinka (grape), a Hungarian wine grape * Dinka (DJ), a Swiss DJ * Dinka or Dinkan, fictional comics character and central deity of the parody Indian religion Dinkamatham or Dinkoism People with the surname and given name * Berhanu Dinka (1935–2013), Ethiopian diplomat and economist * Tesfaye Dinka, Ethiopian politician and Prime Minister of Ethiopia * Dinka Džubur, Croatian-born Australian actress, model and filmmaker * Dinka Kulić, Croatian volleyball player See also * Donka (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinka
The Dinka people () are a Nilotic ethnic group native to South Sudan. The Dinka mostly live along the Nile, from Mangalla-Bor to Renk, in the region of Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile (two out of three provinces that were formerly part of southern Sudan), and the Abyei area of the Ngok Dinka in South Sudan. They number around 4.5 million, according to the 2008 Sudan census, constituting about 40% of the population of that country and the largest ethnic group in South Sudan. The Dinka refer to themselves as (singular) and (plural). Origins The Dinka originated from the Gezira in what became Sudan. In medieval times this region was ruled by the kingdom of Alodia, a Christian, multi-ethnic empire in Nubia. Living in its southern periphery and interacting with the Nubians, the Dinka absorbed a sizable amount of Nubian vocabulary. From the 13th century, with the disintegration of Alodia, the Dinka began to migrate out of Gezira, fleeing slave raids, military conflict, and droughts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
