The Tira 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 ...

. The population of this group is 37,000.

Language

They speak Tira of the Kordofanian languages group, in the major Niger–Congo language family. They also speak

Sudanese Arabic Sudanese Arabic, also referred to as the Sudanese dialect (, ), Colloquial Sudanese ( ) or locally as Common Sudanese ( ) refers to the various related varieties of Arabic spoken in Sudan as well as parts of Egypt, Eritrea and Ethiopia. Sudanese ...

References

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

Language

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