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Dinka and Nuer: Comparing Sudan Tribes
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Dinka and Nuer tribe
Comparing Sudan tribes
Dinka Tribe
Language
Nilo- Saharan
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Facts
The dinka tribe is the largest tribe in South Sudan. It constitutes about two fifths of the population. They are organized by tribes. They are organized into independent groups of 1000 to 3000 made out of more than 45000000 Dinka people
Sudan population chart in millions
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Timeline
The records of the first post-colonial government indicate that after the first north-south civil war (1955-1972) the Dinka numbered nearly three million in a country of only fifteen million.
Dinkaland and Dinka people have been politically under the modern state of Sudan since the formation of the polity in the 1820s
1956
1983
Timeline
3000
B.C.E
1820
1955-1972
That number was estimated to have gone up to four million when the second round of civil war resumed in 1983. Over the eighteen years of the war, half of the two million estimated deaths are thought to be Dinka, bringing their current population to approximately three million out of Sudan's total estimated population of twenty-six million.
After independence, the Arabs again took control. All of them had their own interests at heart in controlling Dinkaland rather than the interest of the Dinka, and all have concentrated education development and other services in the north to the total neglect of the south. This pattern of concentration of services in the north has continued since independence in 1956, resulting in southern rebellions.
Similarities
- They both sacrifice animals for gods.
- Cattle are important for both groups.
- They both receive face marking to show adulthood.
- They all live in about the same region.
- They speak similar languages.
Introduction
Neur tribe
The Nuer tribe is the second largest tribe found in south Sudan and some may even be in south-western Ethiopia. They speak the Nuer language and are cattle farmers who herd cattle for a living.
Nuer Language
The Nuer language is a Nilo-Saharan language of the Western Nilotic group. It is spoken by the Nuer people of South Sudan and in western Ethiopia . Nuer is one of eastern and central Africa's most widely spoken languages, along with the Dinka language.
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Western Nilotic Languages
The Western Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, along with the Eastern Nilotic languages and Southern Nilotic languages; Themselves belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan.[2] There are about 22 (SIL estimate) Western Nilotic languages spoken in an area ranging from southwestern Ethiopia and South Sudan.
Food
Facts
Typical foods eaten by the Nuer tribe include beef, goat, cow's milk, mangos, and sorghum in one of three forms: "kop" finely ground, handled until balled and boiled, "walwal" ground, lightly balled and boiled to a solid porridge, and injera / Yctyct, a large, pancake-like yeast-risen flatbread.
Timeline
Vice President Riek Machar, a Nuer, was dismissed by the South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, a Dinka, over accusations of a coup attempt against the president. In addition to past support for the North by the Nuer, this sparked massive violence; President Salva Kiir ordered the deaths of thousands of Nuer in the Juba Massacre of 2013.
North Sudan wanted total control over Sudan which prvoked two civil wars leading to the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005
2011
2017
Timeline
3000
B.C.E
2005
2013
Since the start of the conflict, more than 2.4 million people have been displaced. In the northern part of South Sudan, the United Nations protects civilians in camp Bentiu. Nearly everyone in this camp is Nuer. In February 2017, a group of Dinka soldiers called the Upper Nile State attacked the Bentiu U.N. compound, killing an estimated 300 Nuer civilians.
North and South Sudan signed the Independence Referendum in 2011
Religion
Religion
Cattle play an important role in rituals. They are always talking about their animals, and cattle are involved in their folklore, marriage practices, religious ceremonies, and relations with neighbors. The Nuer believe that a cow should not be slaughtered except as a sacrifice to God, the spirits, and the ancestors.
Introduction
Differences
The Dinka and the Nuer are similar in many ways but are also different in many ways. They started from the same people but ended up differently and so they have differences in religion and activities and names.
Dinka
- They both sacrifice animals for gods.
- Cattle are important for both groups.
- They both receive face marking to show adulthood.
- They all live in about the same region.
- They speak similar languages.