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Dair
Thaminyi
Native to	Sudan
Region	Nuba Mountains
Native speakers	(1,000 cited 1978)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Northern Eastern Nubian Central Hill (Unclassified) Dair
Language codes
ISO 639-3	drb
Glottolog	dair1239
ELP	Dair
Dair is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Dair (also Dabab, Daier, Thaminyi) is a moribund Hill Nubian language spoken in the northern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It was spoken by around 1,000 people in 1978 in the Jibaal as-Sitta hills, between Dilling and Delami.

According to a wordlist by German explorer Werner Munzinger, in his 1864 book Ostafrikanische Studien (East African Studies), the Dair language was called Kuliniri by the local people at that time.

References

1. ^ Dair at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) [REDACTED]
2. Nubasprache (Nuba Language)

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