El Hugeirat language

El Hugeirat
El Hagarat
Native to Sudan
Region Nuba Mountains
Ethnicity El Hugeirat people
Native speakers
1,000 (2005)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 elh
Glottolog elhu1238[2]

El Hugeirat (also El Hagarat) is a moribund Hill Nubian language spoken in the northern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is spoken by around 50 people in a few families in the El Hugeirat hills, in the villages of Sija, Bija, Shenshin and Baboy.[3]

References

  1. "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "El Hugeirat". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. "El Hugeirat". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
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