Dinka Definition

dĭngkə
dinkas
noun
A member of a group of Sudanic peoples living in S Sudan (the country)
Webster's New World
The language of these peoples, belonging to the Chari-Nile subfamily of the Nilo-Saharan family of languages.
Webster's New World
pronoun
A tribe of southern Sudan.
Wiktionary

The Nilo-Saharan language spoken by these people.

Wiktionary

Origin of Dinka

  • Probably ultimately from Dinka jieng person

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Dinka Sentence Examples

  • The country east of the Nile is divided between the Bari, Nuer and Dinka tribes.

  • They have as neighbours the Dinka to the north, the Madi to the south, and the Galla to the east.

  • The Bahr-ei-Ghazal.The first outbreak in favor of Mahdism in the Bahr-el-Ghazal took place at Liffi in August 1882, when the Dinka tribe, under Jango, revolted and was defeated by Lupton 33ey with considerable slaughter at Tel Gauna, and again in 1883

  • In 1893 the dervish amir, Abu Mariam, fought with the Dinka tribe and was killed and his force destroyed, the fugitives taking refuge in Shakka.

  • In the northern zone this check is absent, and the number of more essentially pastoral peoples, such as the eastern Hamites, Masai, Dinka, Fula, &c., correspondingly greater.

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Words Starting With

DDIDIN

Words Ending With

AKANKA

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