The Temein languages, or Nuba Hills languages, are a group of
Eastern Sudanic languages
In most classifications, the Eastern Sudanic languages are a group of nine families of languages that may constitute a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Eastern Sudanic languages are spoken from southern Egypt to northern Tanzania.
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spoken in the
Nuba Mountains
The Nuba Mountains ( ar, جبال النوبة), also referred to as the Nuba Hills, is an area located in South Kordofan, Sudan. The area is home to a group of indigenous ethnic groups known collectively as the Nuba peoples. In the Middle Age ...
of
Sudan.
Languages
The Temein languages are not closely related.
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Temein (Ronge; 10,000 speakers)
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Doni (Keiga Jirru)
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Tese (Dese)
Temein is the most
conservative
Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization in ...
language; Doni and Tese have been strongly influenced by
Kadu languages
The Kadu languages, also known as Kadugli–Krongo or Tumtum, are a small language family of the Kordofanian geographic grouping, once included in Niger–Congo. However, since Thilo Schadeberg (1981), Kadu is widely seen as Nilo-Saharan. Evid ...
.
Demographics
Demographic information of the three Temein languages according to Blench (2013):
[Blench, Roger M. 2013. Introduction to the Temein languages. In Thilo C. Schadeberg and Roger M. Blench (eds.), ''Nuba Mountain Language Studies'', 485-500. Cologne: Köppe.]
See also
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Temein word lists (Wiktionary)
References
*Blench, Roger. 2006.
Comparative Temein wordlists'.
External links
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Roger Blench
Roger Marsh Blench (born August 1, 1953) is a British linguist, ethnomusicologist and development anthropologist. He has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and is based in Cambridge, England. He researches, publishes, and wor ...
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{{Nilo-Saharan families
Southern Eastern Sudanic languages
Languages of Sudan
Language families