The Tagale are a sub-ethnic group of the

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 ...

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 Tegali of the

Kordofanian languages The Kordofanian languages are a geographic grouping of five language groups spoken in the Nuba Mountains of the South Kordofan region of Sudan: Talodi–Heiban languages, Lafofa languages, Rashad languages, Katla languages and Kadu languages ...

group, in the major Niger–Congo language family. They number several 80,000 people. Most of them are Muslims.

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Joshua Project
Nuba peoples Ethnic groups in Sudan {{Sudan-ethno-group-stub

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