• Ruweng people (category Articles containing Northwestern Dinka-language text)
    Misseriya) from the east to northwest. Ruweng speak the Ruweng Padang Dinka dialect, a subdialect of the Padang dialect of the Dinka language. While Ruweng...
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    killing several hundred people. This forced the Dinka in Wau to seek safety in the eastern side of Wau. The Dinka were said to have migrated to the state today...
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  • village where NBA player Manute Bol was born. In 1999, when Ayuel was 11, his Dinka Tribe was invaded by Islamic soldiers. Ayuel and a group of several thousand...
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    County" at about 82,500. At that time, the Dinka Agar constituted about 60% of the population, 30% were Dinka Gok, 6% were Bongo and 4% were Jur-Bel. In...
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    river, known in English as Ambas Bay. The name was coined by Fon Gorji Dinka in 1984 as part of a campaign for the restoration of autonomy and preservation...
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  • mythology Kongo mythology Lugbara mythology Mbuti mythology Kalenjin folklore Dinka mythology Kalenjin mythology Lotuko mythology Maasai mythology Somali mythology...
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  • code for Dinka. There are five individual language codes assigned: dib – South Central Dinka dik – Southwestern Dinka dip – Northeastern Dinka diw – Northwestern...
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    (ɔl Maa), a member of the Nilotic language family that is related to the Dinka, Kalenjin and Nuer languages. Except for some elders living in rural areas...
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    Lost Boys of Sudan (category Dinka)
    Lost Boys of Sudan refers to a group of over 20,000 boys of the Nuer and Dinka ethnic groups who were displaced or orphaned during the Second Sudanese...
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    Warrap and the oldest town in South Sudan, home to various tribes such as Dinka, Bongo, and JurChol. The town is divided into three counties—Tonj North...
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    clashes took in Wau State from late June 2016 to January 2019 between the Dinka-dominated Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and local opposition forces...
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  • Widikum (category Populated places in Northwest Region (Cameroon))
    River. It is also the homeland of Ambazonian lawyer and activist, Fon Gorji Dinka. In 2019, Ambazonian separatist, General Sebastian, as he was popularly...
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    Bol Bol (category Dinka people)
    and his wife Ajok Kuag. He was named after his late great-grandfather and Dinka chief Bol Chol Bol. In 1998, after an American missile strike during the...
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    Haplogroup A3b2-M13 is common among the Southern Sudanese (53%), especially the Dinka Sudanese (61.5%). Haplogroup A3b2-M13 also has been observed in another...
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    The Sudd (Arabic: السد, romanized: as-Sudd, Dinka: Toc) is a vast swamp in South Sudan, formed by the White Nile's Baḥr al-Jabal section. The Arabic word...
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  • South Ossetia Ossetian Russian Georgian Georgian South Sudan English Bari Dinka Luo Murle Nuer Zande (60 other languages) Spain Spanish Catalan (Balearic...
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    catastrophe and wide-scale famine among the local tribes, most especially the Dinka. In the civil war that followed their homeland was raided, looted, pillaged...
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    An alphabetic script called Nilerian has been invented by Aleu Majok for Dinka and other languages of South Sudan. In Southern Africa, the Mwangwego alphabet...
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  • Nigeria. The writer states that the dominant Ju-Ju of Elele, a town in the northwest of the Degema district, is a Priest-King, elected for a term of seven...
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  • North Sudan and Far Southern Egypt, along middle Nile river valley banks Dinka (Jieng): mainly in Lakes, Warrap and Unity States, Upper Nile river course...
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  • Kuajok, along Highway B38 Warrap State Bahr el Ghazal Region Gogrial Wau Dinka people Nuer people Location of Kwajok At Google Maps "Kuacjok suspends activities...
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    1990, reports of slavery came out of Bahr al Ghazal, a Dinka region in southern Sudan. In 1995, Dinka mothers spoke about their abducted children. Roughly...
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    Roman and Aksumite civilizations resulted in Christian communities in the northwest, northeast, and south of Arabia. Christianity made a lesser impact in...
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  • borderland between these kingdoms that plundered for slaves and gold. The Dinka and Nuer to the southwest raided the Gaahmg for cattle during times of drought...
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    administrative centre under the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1899 -1956) for the Dinka Bor. It was in Malek, a small settlement, about 19 kilometres (12 mi), south...
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    salvaged uncultivable due to delayed planting.[1] Peoples of Aweil, Lou and Dinka are felt as the huge members of SPLM party among other three major capital...
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  • Godfrey (1961). Divinity and Experience: The Religion of the Dinka: The Religion of the Dinka. Oxford University Press. p. 82. ISBN 9780191591853. St. Andrew;...
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    surrounding areas, and a broadcasting centre that prepares messages in the Dinka and Nuer languages. Local people are mainly nomads of the Turkana tribe...
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  • Akan Bantu Bushongo Kongo Lozi Zulu Dahomean Dinka Efik Hausa Lugbara Maasai Malagasy Mbuti Odinani San Serer Somali...
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  • Haplogroup A-M13 is common among the Southern Sudanese (53%), especially the Dinka (61.5%). Haplogroup A-M13 also has been observed in another sample of a...
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