Nilotic · East Africa

Nuer

Not endangered

Nuer is documented so far only to the level of grammar.

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FamilyNilotic
StatusNot endangered
DocumentationGrammar
ISO 639-3nus
Glottocodenuer1246

Spoken in Ethiopia · South Sudan

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Closest relatives

Languages sharing the deepest branch of Nilotic's family tree with Nuer.

  1. Reel

    Threatened
    Grammar

  2. Northeastern Dinka

    Not endangered
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  3. Northwestern Dinka

    Not endangered
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  4. South Central Dinka

    Not endangered
    Grammar

  5. Southeastern Dinka

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  6. Southwestern Dinka

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  7. Acoli

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  8. Adhola

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

Reference data for Nuer from Glottolog 5.2.1, licensed CC-BY-4.0. Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2025. Glottolog 5.2.1. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)