Dair | |
Also Known As: | Thaminyi |
States: | Sudan |
Region: | Nuba Mountains |
Speakers: | 1,000 |
Date: | 1978 |
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: | drb |
Glotto: | dair1239 |
Glottorefname: | Dair |
Dair (also Dabab, Daier, Thaminyi) is a moribund Hill Nubian language spoken in the northern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It was spoken by around 1,000 people in 1978 in the Jibaal as-Sitta hills, between Dilling and Delami.
According to a wordlist by German explorer Werner Munzinger, in his 1864 book Ostafrikanische Studien (East African Studies), the Dair language was called Kuliniri by the local people at that time.[1]