Tira (language)
Tira ( Lithiro ) | ||
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Spoken in |
Nuba Mountains , ( Sudan ) | |
speaker | 40,000 (in 1982) | |
Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-3 |
tic |
Tira , also known as Tiro or Thiro , is a Kordofan language spoken in Kordofan in Sudan .
It belongs to the group of Heiban languages within the Niger-Congo language family .
Since the speakers were exposed to strong Islamic-Arabic assimilation pressure on the part of the Sudan Arabs , the number of speakers in the language has declined sharply: The speakers are increasingly adopting the high-level Arabic language as their mother tongue and thus also teaching it to their children.