Lafofa is an ethnic group among the

Nuba The Nuba people are indigenous inhabitants of southern Sudan. The Nuba are made up of 50 various indigenous ethnic groups who inhabit the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan, South Kordofan state in Sudan, encompassing multiple distinct people that ...

people 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 likely numbers less than 10,000 persons. This minority is mainly

Muslim Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ...

. Many of them speak

Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...

. The traditional language is Lafofa, a Niger–Congo language. They live in

South Kurdufan South Kordofan ( ') is one of the 18 wilayat or states of Sudan. It has an area of 158,355 km2 and an estimated population of approximately 2,107,623 people (2018 est). Kaduqli is the capital of the state. It is centered on the Nuba Mounta ...

Books

* Leif O. Manger: ''From the Mountains to the Plains. The Integration of the Lafofa Nuba into Sudanese Society.'' The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala 1994. Summary
Leif Ole Manger: ''Religion, Identities, and Politics: Defining Muslim Discourses in the Nuba Mountains of the Sudan.'' 1995

External links

The Nuba Mountains Homepage
Nuba peoples Ethnic groups in Sudan {{Sudan-ethno-group-stub