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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 Nuba people are indigenous inhabitants of southern Sudan. The Nuba are made up of 50 various indigenous ethnic groups who inhabit the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan state in Sudan , [ 4 ] encompassing multiple distinct people that speak different languages which belong to at least two unrelated language families .
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 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.
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It includes Nubian people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
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)