Nubi

Facts

  • Language: Nubi
  • Alternate names: Kinubi, Ki-Nubi, Kinúbi, Rután Núbi
  • Language code: kcn
  • Language family: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, West Semitic, Central Semitic, Arabian, Arabic, Egyptic Arabic, Egypto-Sudanic Arabic, Sudanese-Chadian Arabic
  • Creole language
  • Number of speakers: ~25,000
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    Came from Sudan and originally settled near Bombo town, but now have dispersed. Muslim.

    Nubi is spoken in Kenya, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Africa.