Dair language explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. https://archive.org/details/ostafrikanisches00munz/page/546/mode/1up