The Otoro Nuba are an ethnic group in the
Nuba Mountains of
South Kordofan state, in southern
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 ...
.
They speak the
Otoro language
The Otoro language is a Talodi–Heiban languages, Heiban language which belongs to the Kordofanian languages, Kordofanian Languages and therefore it is a part of the Niger–Congo languages, Niger-Congo language family. In a smaller view the Otoro ...
, a
Niger-Congo language. The population of this ethnic group is approximately 12,000.
See also
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Nuba peoples
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 state in Sudan, encompassing multiple distinct people that speak differ ...
References
Joshua Project
Nuba peoples
Ethnic groups in Sudan
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