The Tima are an ethnic group of the
Nuba Mountains in
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 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 South Kordofan region of Sudan: Talodi–Heiban languages, Lafofa languages, Rashad languages, Katla languages and Kadu languages ...
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 pe ...
References
Joshua Project
Ethnic groups in Sudan
South Kordofan
Nuba peoples
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