Nyimang language

Nyimang, also known as Ama, is an East Sudanic language spoken in the Nuba Mountains.

Nyimang
Ama
Native toSudan
RegionNuba Hills
Native speakers
(70,000 cited 1982)[1]
Dialects
  • Ama
  • Mandal
Language codes
ISO 639-3nyi
Glottologamas1236

It is spoken in Al Fous, Fuony, Hajar Sultan, Kakara, Kalara, Koromiti, Nitil, Salara, Tundia, and other villages (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).

Rilly (2010:182) lists two mutually unintelligible varieties, Ama and Mandal.[2] Blench lists the Mandal dialect separately.

References

  1. Nyimang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Rilly, Claude. 2010. Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 978-9042922372


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