Tira (language)

Tira ( Lithiro )
Spoken in	Nuba Mountains , ( Sudan )
speaker	40,000 (in 1982)
Linguistic classification	Niger-Congo Atlantic – Congo Talodi-Heiban Heiban languages West Heiban Tira
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.