Nuer (language)
| Nuer (also: Naath or Naadh) | ||
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Spoken in |
South Sudan and Ethiopia | |
| speaker | around 805,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Other official status in |
 Gambela ( Ethiopia )
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
ssa |
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| ISO 639-3 |
nus |
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Nuer , own name Naath or Naadh , is the language of the African Nuer people and belongs to the Nuer-Dinka language group within the West Nilotic languages . It is spoken by around 900,000 people, of whom about 740,000 live in South Sudan (as of 1982) and 65,000 in Ethiopia (as of 1998).
Nuer is not an official language , but it has a high status in the Ethiopian region of Gambella , where politicians have to speak the language.
See also
literature
- Chauncey Hugh Stigand: Nuer-English Vocabulary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1923.
- Ray Huffman: Nuer-English Dictionary. Reimer, Berlin 1929.
- Ray Huffman: English-Nuer Dictionary Milford, London 1931.
- Giuseppe Pasquale Crazzolara: Outlines of a Nuer grammar. Publishing house of the international magazine Anthropos , Vienna 1933.
- Gatwich P. Kulang, Gatluak Pal: Nuer English Dictionary. Basic Nuer English Dictionary 1998. Sudan Literature Center, Nairobi 1999.
Web links
- Paul Lewis et al. a. (Ed.): Nuer: A Language of South Sudan. In: Ethnologue: Languages of the World . Retrieved May 11, 2014 .
- Marion Frank-Wilson: Nuer Field Notes (Eleanor Vandevort). In: IU Libraries African Studies Collection. The Trustees of Indiana University, August 29, 2003, accessed May 11, 2014 (English, word lists, expressions, grammar, texts).
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Lewis et al. a. (Ed.): Nuer: A Language of South Sudan. In: Ethnologue: Languages of the World . Retrieved May 11, 2014 .