Nyima languages
(Redirected from Nyimang languages)
| Nyima | |
|---|---|
| Nyimang | |
| Geographic distribution | Sudan |
| Ethnicity | Nyimang |
| Linguistic classification | Nilo-Saharan? |
| Proto-language | Proto-Nyima |
| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | nyim1244 |
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The Nyima languages are a pair of languages of Sudan spoken by the Nyimang of the Nuba Mountains. They appear to be most closely related to the Eastern Sudanic languages, especially the northern group of Nubian, Nara and Tama.
Languages
[edit]The languages are:
Claude Rilly (2010)[3] includes reconstructions for Proto-Nyima.
See also
[edit]- List of Northern Eastern Sudanic reconstructions (Wiktionary)
References
[edit]- ^ Ama at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Afitti at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Rilly, Claude. 2010. Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 978-9042922372
