Danagla

 ( Sudanese Arabs ) 

The Danagla (, "People of Old Dongola") are a Nubians tribe in northern Sudan

Dunstan M. Wai (1981). 9780841906310, Africana Publishing Company. . ISBN 9780841906310

primarily settling between the third Nile cataract and al Dabbah. Along with Kenzi, Fadicca, Halfawi, Sikot, and Mahas, they form a significant part of the Nubians. They traditionally speak the Nubian Dongolawi or Andaandi language, which in the 19th century was still spoken as far south as Korti and probably even further upstream. Today it is threatened by complete replacement by Sudanese Arabic as it is only spoken among parts of the population, especially the elders, although there are a lot of initiatives to revive it among the young generations. Due to this some modern scholars count the Danagla to the Nubians instead of the Sudanese Arabs, although many Danagla consider themselves to be a branch of the Arabs Ja'alin tribe, who claim to descend from Abbas.

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Etymology The term Danagla comes from the city of Old Dongola, which was the capital of the Makuria during Christianity in Nubia, as well as the Muslim Kingdom of Dongola that came after it, which was also in control of the traditional lands of the tribe. Although the term Danagla probably wasn't used among the locals until the spread of Islam, the natives prefer to designate themselves as "Andaandi", which is a word in Nubian that means ("That of our home"), or Dongolaandi ("That of Dongola").

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Genetics According to Y-DNA analysis by Hassan et al (2008), around 44% of Nubians and Danaglas generally in Sudan carry the haplogroup J in individually varied but rather small percentages. The remainder mainly belong to the E1b1b clade (23%). Both paternal lineages are also common among local Afroasiatic-speaking populations.

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Literature

• William Y. Adams (1977). 9780691093703, Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691093703
• Anders Bjokelo (2025). 9780521534444, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521534444

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