Tira people

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Tira
Total population
40,000
Languages
Tira, Arabic
Religion
Sunni Islam and Animism
Related ethnic groups
Moro

The Tira are a sub-ethnic group of the Nuba peoples in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan state, in southern Sudan. The population of this group is 37,000.

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Language

They speak Tira of the Kordofanian languages group, in the major Niger–Congo language family. They also speak Sudanese Arabic.

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