33 Countries of Origin’ Profiles

SUDAN 2 GEOGRAPHY: Sudan is a country located in North-East Africa. Sudan borders Egypt to the north; Libya to the north-west; the Red Sea, Eritrea, and Ethiopia to the east; South Sudan to the south; the Central African Republic and Chad to the west. Before the secession of the south, Sudan was the largest African country, with an area that represented more than 8% of the African continent 1 . CAPITAL: Khartoum POPULATION: 42,249,982 2 LANGUAGE: There are 134 living languages and more than 400 dialects in Sudan. They can be divided into four main language families: Semitic, Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo. Arabic, belonging to the Semitic language family is the dominating language, spoken only in one dialect, the Sudanese Arabic. A variant of Arabic is the Sudanese Creole , which is used as lingua franca in Sudan. In addition to Arabic, Beja or Bedawi (belonging to the Afro-Asiatic family) is spoken by 1.8 million people mainly in the north. Hausa is spoken by 80.000 people in the west. Within the Nilo-Saharan language family is Dinka, spoken by the 3 million Dinka people living in southern Sudan. Nuer is a major language of the south-eastern regions spoken by the Nuer people near the border to Ethiopia. Fur is a major language of Sudan, native to the Darfur region, spoken by the Fur people. The two dialects o f Nubian a re spoken in the north and are often considered independent languages. Shilluk is spoken by the 600,000 Shilluk people in the area west of the White Nile. Bari is the major language spoken by the Bari p eople in the southernmost part of Sudan's Nile. 1 https://www.britannica.com/place/Sudan 2 http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/sudan-population/