NYI ISO 639-3
Ama
Ámá Autonym
A language of Sudan
- ISO 639
- nyi
- Alternate Names
- Inyimang, Nyima, Nyiman, Nyimang, Nyuwing
- Autonym
- Ámá
- Population
- 158,000 (2017). Elderly and young children are monolingual.
- Location:
- South Kordofan state: Al Fous, Fuony, Hajar Sultan, Kakara, Kalara, Koromiti, Nitil, Salara, Tundia, and other villages in Jebel Mandal range, Nyimang hills.
- Language Status
- 5 (Developing).
- Classification
- Nilo-Saharan, Satellite-Core, Core, Eastern Sudanic, Northern (k languages), Nyimang
- Dialects
- Ama, Mandal (Male). 80% similarity between Ama and Mandal dialects. Lexical similarity: 59% with Afitti [aft].
- Language Use
- L1 widely used, even by children. All domains. Used by all. Also use Standard Arabic [arb], especially in education.
- Language Development
- Ama orthography and literacy materials developed. Literature. Bible portions: 1950.
- Language Resources
- OLAC resources in and about Ama
- Writing
- Latin script [Latn].
- Other Comments
- Called Nyuwing by some Hill Nubian languages; people on the Mandal Hills (Sobay (Sud), Adlan, Bade, Kule, Wulal) used to speak the Kudur dialect of Dilling [dil], but now only speak Ama.
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Location: South Kordofan state: Al Fous, Fuony, Hajar Sultan, Kakara, Kalara, Koromiti, Nitil, Salara, Tundia, and other villages in Jebel Mandal range, Nyimang hills.
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