Heiban people

Heiban people
Languages
Heiban
Religion
Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Talodi,Otoro

The Heiban Nuba are an ethnic group Indigenous to the Nuba Mountains in Sudan.

Heiban are very close to the Otoro tribe and they both live in the South of Nuba mountains between Delami and Talodi and can understand the language of one another.[1]

The Heiban people are mostly christian and live in the Heiban county located on Heiban mountains.[2][3]

Language

The Heiban languages belong to Kordofanian languages group, of the Nuba Mountains, which is in the major family of Niger–Congo languages.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Peristiany, J. G. (January 1949). "The Nuba. An Anthropological Study of the Hill Tribes in Kordofan. By S. F. Nadel, with a Foreword by Major-General Sir Hubert Huddleston, Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Oxford University Press, 1947. Pp. 527. 42s" (PDF). Africa. p. 101. doi:10.2307/1156266. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
  2. ^ "School in Nuba Mountains Bombed for Second Time". The Enough Project. 27 March 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
  3. ^ "SPLA-N repels attack by SAF in Heiban". Radio Tamazuj. 25 July 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
  4. ^ Manfredi, Stefano. "An areal typology of kin terms in the Nuba Mountain languages". Retrieved 12 March 2026.



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