Bisinka iya Yasinka! Waryaa, Nilotic! Waxan Carabi Miyaa?!

[Shimbiris]

I haven't been this fascinated by an Arabic dialect since I heard my first Moroccan reer tuulo. Do you or any of your relations speak Juba Arabic, @Nilotic ?

 

[Shimbiris]

@Jacko

Kaalay dhageyso, ninyahow!

 

[Aurelian]

creole language

 

[Nilotic]

I haven't been this fascinated by an Arabic dialect since I heard my first Moroccan reer tuulo. Do you or any of your relations speak Juba Arabic, @Nilotic ?

Yes, I have relatives that speak Juba Arabic, however, my father could speak, read and write proper Arabic.

I was surprised to learn how many Arabic loan words we have in our language.

 

[Shimbiris]

Yes, I have relatives that speak Juba Arabic, however, my father could speak, read and write proper Arabic.

I was surprised to learn how many Arabic loan words we have in our language.

Didn't Dinkas used to live in Gezira?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gezira_(state)

Surprised at how north that is. You guys used to have many Nubian linguistic influences and contacts in the distant past too, apparently. No doubt when Arabic began to overtake Nubian as the Upper Nubian lingua franca you guys also began to be influenced by it in turn.

 

[Nilotic]

Didn't Dinkas used to live in Gezira?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gezira_(state)

Surprised at how north that is. You guys used to have many Nubian linguistic influences and contacts in the distant past too, apparently. No doubt when Arabic began to overtake Nubian as the Upper Nubian lingua franca you guys also began to be influenced by it in turn.

That is pretty far North, but some Dinka maintain that we used to live as far North as Shendi, but I can't verify that.

We only recently migrated to the South and have had extensive contacts with the Nubians of the medieval period and probably earlier; the shared cognates between Dinka and Nobiin (classical Nubian) is 27% -- and this speaks to the contacts between us and them.

I recently presented data showing Meroitic influence reaching as far South as the White Nile in antiquity.