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Whereas Arabic was once only learned by Nubian men who travelled for work, it is increasingly being learned by Nubian women who have access to school, radio and television. Nubian women are working outside the home in increasing numbers. [56] During the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Egypt employed Nubian people as Code talkers. [57] [58] [59]
Nubia (/ ˈ nj uː b i ə /, Nobiin: Nobīn, [2] Arabic: النُوبَة, romanized: an-Nūba) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the confluence of the Blue and White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), and the area between the first cataract of the Nile (south of Aswan in southern Egypt) or more strictly, Al Dabbah.
The term Nuba should not be confused with the Nubians, an unrelated ethnic group speaking the Nubian languages living in northern Sudan and southern Egypt, [6] although the Hill Nubians, who live in the Nuba Mountains, are also considered part of the Nubian people.
The Danagla (Arabic: الدناقلة, "People of Dongola") are a Nubian tribe in northern Sudan [2] [3] primarily settling between the third Nile cataract and al Dabbah.Along with Kenzi, Fadicca, Halfawi, Sikot, and Mahas, they form a significant part of the Nubians.
According to expert Mark Leopold, the Nubian identity was an "elective, strategic, and potential alternative ethnicity" for people from the West Nile region before 1979. Even Amin's British advisor Bob Astles adopted the traditional Nubian scars. [17] Many Nubians brought to Uganda for military purposes eventually settled in towns and cities.
The Ancient Egyptian classification of ancient peoples (from left to right): a Libyan, a Nubian, an Asiatic, and an Egyptian.Drawing by an unknown artist after a mural of the tomb of Seti I; Copy by Heinrich Menu von Minutoli (1820).
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Egyptian people of Nubian descent (1 C, 23 P) Sudanese people of Nubian descent (6 P) K. Queens of Kush (1 C, 34 P) M. Nubian monarchs (2 C, 21 P) W. Nubian women (5 C)