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Dinka
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Dinka

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Dinka village on the Nile River in the southern Sudan.
(credit: Henriette Grindat)
Cattle-herding people of the Nile basin in southern Sudan. They speak an eastern Sudanic language of the Nilo-Saharan family and are closely related to the Nuer. Numbering about four million, they are divided into independent groups of 1,000–30,000 persons. Leadership is provided by priest-chiefs. In recent years they have been involved in civil war. See also Nilot.



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Bonna, born in the Dinka tribe, was never afforded rites of passage to be a tribal warrior because a zealous regime forced him away before coming of age.
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Even that was a far cry from the language of his Dinka tribe.
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Similar positive steps can be seen in the church's attempts to reconcile conflicts between the Nuer and Dinka tribes, he added.
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