El Hugeirat | |
Also Known As: | El Hagarat |
States: | Sudan |
Region: | Nuba Mountains |
Ethnicity: | El Hugeirat people |
Speakers: | 50 |
Date: | 2007 |
Ref: | e25 |
Familycolor: | Nilo-Saharan |
Fam2: | Eastern Sudanic |
Fam3: | Northern Eastern |
Fam4: | Nubian |
Fam5: | Central |
Fam6: | Hill |
Fam7: | (Unclassified) |
Map2: | Lang Status 40-SE.svg |
Iso3: | elh |
Glotto: | elhu1238 |
Glottorefname: | El Hugeirat |
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.