The Tima are an ethnic group of 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 ...
in
South Kordofan state, in southern
Sudan. They number several thousand people.
Language
The Tima people speak
Tima, which is in the
Kordofanian languages
The Kordofanian languages are a geographic grouping of five language groups spoken in the Nuba Mountains of the Kurdufan, Sudan: Talodi–Heiban languages, Lafofa languages, Rashad languages, Katla languages and Kadu languages. The first fo ...
group (of the Nuba Mountains), in the major
Niger-Congo language family.
See also
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Heiban Nuba people
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Talodi people The Talodi are a sub-ethnic group of the Nuba peoples in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan state, in southern Sudan. They likely number more than 1,000 people.
The area's city and district, Talodi, are named for them.
Language
The Talodi peo ...
References
Joshua Project
Ethnic groups in Sudan
South Kordofan
Nuba peoples
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