El Hugeirat (also El Hagarat) is a moribund Hill Nubian language spoken in the northern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is spoken by around 50 people in a few families in the El Hugeirat hills, in the villages of Sija, Bija, Shenshin and Baboy.[2]
El Hugeirat | |
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El Hagarat | |
Native to | Sudan |
Region | Nuba Mountains |
Ethnicity | El Hugeirat people |
Native speakers | 50 (2007)[1] |
Language family | Nilo-Saharan?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | elh |
Glottolog | elhu1238 |
ELP | El Hugeirat |
![]() El Hugeirat is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
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Italics indicate extinct languages |
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