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Dilling people

ethnic group

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ495910 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Dilling are an ethnic group of the Nuba peoples. The Dilling numbered 11,000 in 2011 and live mainly in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan state, in southern Sudan, being part of the Hill Nubians.

Language

The Dilling language is one of the Nubian languages of the Nilo-Saharan family.

Lifestyle

Most of Dilling are farmers, Farming sorghum, cotton,

and peanuts in the southern Nuba Mountains.They are predominately Muslim.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dilling people” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.