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El Hugeirat language

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El Hugeirat
El Hagarat
Native toSudan
RegionNuba Mountains
EthnicityEl Hugeirat people
Native speakers
50 (2007)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3elh
Glottologelhu1238
ELPEl 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.[2]

References

  1. ^ El Hugeirat at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018) Closed access icon
  2. ^ "El Hugeirat". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-06-25.