Anywaa, are a Luo Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting parts of East Africa. The Anuak belong to the larger Luo family group. Their language is referred to as...
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Anuak may refer to: Anuak people, East Africa Anuak language, spoken primarily in the Western part of Ethiopia Anuak Zone, Ethiopian region of Gambela...
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Anuak or Anywaa is a Luo language which belongs to the western Nilotic branch of the Nilotic language family. It is spoken primarily in the western part...
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Gambela conflict (redirect from Anuak Militants)
in the Gambela Region of Ethiopia between armed groups of the indigenous Anuak people with civilians of the indigenous Nuer people, and the Ethiopian military...
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000 inhabitants. It is home to a diverse population, including the Nuer, Anuak, and other indigenous groups. The region's economy is largely based on agriculture...
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Anyuak Zone or Anywaa Zone is a zone in Gambela Region of Ethiopia. It was created from former Administrative Zone 1 and Administrative Zone 2 of Gambela...
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Nilotic language family. The Luo groups in South Sudan include the Shilluk, Anuak, Pari, Acholi, Balanda Boor, Thuri and Luwo. Those in Uganda include the...
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classified within the Glottolog database as follows: Lwoo Northern Lwoo Anuak Belanda Bor Luwo–Thuri Luwo Thuri Päri Shilluk Southern Lwoo Acoli Adhola–Alur–Luo...
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country, particularly in the Gambela Region. Among these are the Nuer and Anuak who are also found in South Sudan which borders the Gambela Region. The...
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W. Don McClure (section The Anuak Project (1938-1962))
self-governing, self-propagating church. In 1938 he initiated a new mission with the Anuak people at Akobo on the Sudan-Ethiopia border. A team of specialists in education...
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are not fully limited to, Shilluk, Luwo, Thuri, Belanda Bor, Burun, Päri, Anuak, and Southern Luo. Although mostly being considered a Western Nilotic language...
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South Sudan. The largest ethnic groups among these include the Nuer and Anuak. The Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, being an amalgam...
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Uganda languages are all linguistically related to Dholuo of South Sudan and Anuak of Ethiopia due to common ethnic origins of the larger Luo peoples who speak...
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recently for Bilen. The Geʽez script has also recently been used to write Anuak, and used in limited extent to write some other Nilo-Saharan Nilotic languages...
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refer to a small bell. The toom, a lamellophone, is used among the Nuer, Anuak, Majangir, Surma, and other Nilotic groups. Metal leg rattles are common...
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Tigrinya: 5 Cushitic Somali: 10–15 Oromo: 30–35 Nilo-Saharan: <1 Gumuz Anuak Kunama Nara Niger–Congo: <1 Zigula Swahili (Bravanese and Bajuni dialects)...
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brutal attack on Gambela's Anuak population. Human Rights Watch has estimated that 424 people were killed. An armed Anuak group (which John Young speculates...
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Hunter-gatherer Andaman Islands Anga Horticultural Jos Plateau Anuak Horticultural Anuak Zone, Gambela Bassa Subsistence agriculture Bassaland Berom Subsistence...
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Orthodox Church of Antioch, Catholicism → Melkite Catholicism Anuak Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Anuak Ethiopia (Anuakia), South Sudan (Boma) Christianity Apache...
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Georgette; Clough, Michael; Ross, James, eds. (March 2005). "Targeting the Anuak: Human Rights Violations and Crimes Against Humanity in Ethiopia's Gambella...
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Massacre was a three-day-long massacre in the city of Gambela targeting Anuak people in December of 2003. The massacre perpetrated by the ENDF and "highlander"...
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"Nilo-Saharan", a segment of the larger Nilo-Saharan family. Nilo-Saharan Anuak language (also in South Sudan) Berta language Gumuz language Kacipo-Balesi...
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300 Bahr el Ghazal (Western) Aja Central Sudanic Anuak 100,000 Greater Upper Nile (Boma State) Anuak Nilotic Atuot 100,000 Bahr el Ghazal (Eastern Lakes...
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Libya, Sudan, and Syria. In Sudan he raised irregular troops among the Anuak to harass the Italians and engaged in guerrilla warfare. In 1942, he was...
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to an autonomous area. It is bordered on the south and southeast by the Anuak Zone, on the west by the Nuer Zone, on the northwest by South Sudan, and...
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Cambodian Minister of Trade Adongo Agada Cham (1959–2011), king of the Anuak people of Sudan and Ethiopia Jorge Cham (born 1976), comic-book artist Patrick...
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Shilluk are closely related to the Anuak people and Luo Nilotic members. The Shilluk language shares many words with the Anuak language (the dha anywaa). Most...
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the approx. 96,000 Anuak people of South Sudan and the corresponding Western Ethiopian border region. He is the 23rd King of the Anuak Nyiudola Royal Dynasty...
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20+ Tigrinya: 5 Cushitic Somali: 10–15 Oromo: 30–35 Nilo-Saharan: 1 Gumuz Anuak Kunama Nara Niger–Congo: 1 Zigula Southern Africa Niger–Congo, Bantu Zulu:...
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lamellophone thumb piano used in the traditional music of the Nuer and Anuak ethnic groups of western Ethiopia. The instruments is also called thoom...
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