Nubians

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Nubians


Total population
495 000
Regions with significant populations
Egypt, Sudan
Languages
Nobiin, Egyptian Arabic, Sudanese Arabic
Religion
Sunni Islam, Coptic Christianity

The Nubians (Arabic: نوبي, Nuubi) are an ethnic group originally from northern Sudan, and now resides throughout East Africa and some parts of Northeast Africa, in southern Egypt.

The Nubian people in Sudan inhabit the region between Halfa in the north to north Aldaba in the south. The main Nubian groups are from north to south are: Halfaweyen, Sikut (Sickkout), Mahas and Danagla. They speak different dialects of the Nubian language.

In ancient times Nubians were depicted by Egyptians as having very dark skin, often shown with hooped earrings and with braided or extended hair.[1] Ancient Nubians were famous for their vast wealth, their trade between central Africa and the lower Nile valley civilizations including Egypt, their skill and precision with the bow, their 23 letter alphabet, the use of adding deadly poison to their arrows, their great military, their advanced civilization, and their century rule over the united upper and lower Egyptian kingdoms.[2]

1 Prominent Nubian figures
2 References
3 See Also
4 External links

[edit] Prominent Nubian figures

Gaafar Nimeiri, former Sudanese president
Mohammed Wardi, singer
Mohamed Mounir, singer
Ahmad Mounib, singer and musician
Ali Hassan Kuban, singer and musician
Hamza El Din, singer and musicologist
Khalil Kalfat, literary critic, political and economic thinker and writer
Haggag Hassan Oddoul, novelist and activist

[edit] References

Rouchdy, Aleya (1991). Nubians and the Nubian Language in Contemporary Egypt: A Case of Cultural and Linguistic Contact. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 9004091971.
Valbelle, Dominique; Charles Bonnet (2007). The Nubian Pharaohs: Black Kings on the Nile. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 977416010X.
Warnock Fernea, Elizabeth; Robert A. Fernea (1990). Nubian Ethnographies. Chicago: Waveland Press Inc.. ISBN 0881334804.