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Definition of Dinka in English: DinkanounPlural Dinkas ˈdɪŋkəˈdiNGkə 1A member of a Sudanese people of the Nile basin. Example sentencesExamples - Sudan's Dinkas are among the tallest in the world.
- The systematic destruction of the Dinka, and all Southern tribes, however, is exactly as Jordan describes.
- Khartoum has exploited this rivalry by employing the murahaleen to harass the Dinka in Bahr al-Ghazal and to run interference for the army's resupply trains to its garrison in the provincial capital, Wau.
- Cows are incredibly important to the Dinka, because when all else fails you can keep your children alive with the milk.
- The Dinka is the largest black tribe in Sudan, related to the Nuer and to another tribe called the Shilluk, in a group defined as the Nilotic tribes.
- Modernisation was coming one way or another - not least because of the influence of Christian missions among the Dinka, and the education and literacy they provided.
- Rebel groups and international human rights organizations have accused the Sudanese government of attempting genocide against (extermination of) the Dinka.
- An estimated 40 per cent of the southern Sudanese are Dinka, while 20 per cent belong to the culturally and linguistically related Nilotic Nuer and Shilluk ethnic groups.
- Cattle to the Dinka aren't food, they are everything.
- To some detractors, Garang was a southern Sudanese, or ethnic Dinka tyrant.
- The stage is so crucial that ‘the English teacher,’ another Dinka refugee with sufficient English skills to fill out application forms, becomes the key counselor for fellow Dinkas searching for harbor beyond Cairo.
- Another Dinka boy told her that an Arab master slit the throats of three slaves who tried to escape.
- ABC's cameras vividly conveyed the plight of one southern tribe, the Dinka, a herding people, among whom Nagele has ministered.
- While in Egypt, he received an impromptu lesson from a fellow Dinka who, unknown to both, would blaze a trail that his pupil would later follow.
- A clear example of this was in Sudan, where government proposals effectively replaced the Dinka's cattle-based economy with cotton.
- In the south are the Dinka and the Nuer, two related groups that face both inter- and intra- cultural conflicts revolving primarily, but not exclusively around religion.
- It ignores extensive evidence, including documented projects where Christian activists have ‘bought back ‘enslaved Dinkas from Muslim brokers.’
- Especially it seems to have been virtually institutionalized in the southern Nuba Mountains and among the Dinka of north central Bahr al Ghazal.
- In the whole of South Sudan there are two groupings: there are those people who live in the area called the Bahr al Ghazal and then there is another area called the Upper Nile area, but these are all Dinkas.
2mass noun The Nilotic language of the Dinka, with about 1.4 million speakers. Example sentencesExamples - In fact, the only interpreters in Ontario who speak his native language of Dinka reside in Toronto.
- Sudanese tribal language gospel radio has already been going out from the new facility, bringing God's Word to many thousands in Dinka and Nuer villages.
- In the south and west, English is spoken alongside the variety of indigenous languages, of which Dinka is the most widespread.
- Linguists classify Dinka as a major language family in the Nilotic category of African languages.
- He still has trouble speaking Dinka but the Olympics have given him a chance to win the support of his hosts.
adjective ˈdɪŋkəˈdiNGkə Relating to the Dinka or their language. Example sentencesExamples - A set of drums is found in every Dinka settlement.
- Shaking hands and hugging, they began to sing the Dinka song ‘Door,’ which means ‘reconciliation.’
- In the past he has consistently confounded sceptics, though his detractors claim he is at heart, and in sharp contrast to Garang, a secessionist and a Dinka nationalist.
- A few months later, when fighting with the government displaced thousands of Nuer, they were able to find refuge in Dinka territory thanks to the bonds forged at Wunlit.
- A naked Dinka tribesman with a Kalashnikov over his shoulder is not an unusual sight.
- Rumbek, in the heart of Dinka territory, has already been designated as the new capital of southern Sudan.
- She says her friends probably still remember the day the tall, silent Dinka girl arrived at the Hackney Free and Parochial School.
- He presided over an utterly devastated and underdeveloped war-torn region from a ramshackle collection of huts in Rumbek, the designated capital of southern Sudan in the heart of Dinka country.
- Like Garang, vice-president Salva Kiir Mayardit is a Dinka tribesman.
- He was like any other Western observer, but with one difference - he had lived in Sudan for over 40 years and so knew the Dinka people and their language.
- Aside from the thousand Dinka killed in the main incident there were also reports of slavery of Dinka women and children in the Kordofan-Bahr al Ghazal borderlands.
- In fact, as the story unraveled the ‘Arab’ liberator (perhaps Doka Awut, by true name) had himself been born of a Dinka mother and an Arab father.
- Just four years ago, the civil war have made living conditions so bad for Sudan's southern Dinka people, that entire villages fled or were displaced.
- His father, Deng Majok, who was paramount chief of the Ngoka Dinka, was both a pillar of Dinka culture and simultaneously a strong national figure committed to a modern unified Sudan.
- Cut off from social relations with other Dinka slaves, for whom speaking their own language was a risk, mastering the Arabic language without instruction became a means of survival.
- In the late 1980s it used local militias to help clear the Dinka population from the Bahr al-Ghazal region of southwest Sudan.
- But there are moderate, peaceable Muslims who live in the north who are friends of the African Dinka people who are mainly affected by the slave raids.
- They would, among others, visit Dinka riverbank farmers in Bor County, southern Sudan, who grow crops and herd cattle.
Origin From the local word Jieng 'people'. Definition of Dinka in US English: DinkanounˈdiNGkə 1A member of a Sudanese people of the Nile basin. Example sentencesExamples - An estimated 40 per cent of the southern Sudanese are Dinka, while 20 per cent belong to the culturally and linguistically related Nilotic Nuer and Shilluk ethnic groups.
- Modernisation was coming one way or another - not least because of the influence of Christian missions among the Dinka, and the education and literacy they provided.
- In the south are the Dinka and the Nuer, two related groups that face both inter- and intra- cultural conflicts revolving primarily, but not exclusively around religion.
- Cattle to the Dinka aren't food, they are everything.
- It ignores extensive evidence, including documented projects where Christian activists have ‘bought back ‘enslaved Dinkas from Muslim brokers.’
- The stage is so crucial that ‘the English teacher,’ another Dinka refugee with sufficient English skills to fill out application forms, becomes the key counselor for fellow Dinkas searching for harbor beyond Cairo.
- Especially it seems to have been virtually institutionalized in the southern Nuba Mountains and among the Dinka of north central Bahr al Ghazal.
- Another Dinka boy told her that an Arab master slit the throats of three slaves who tried to escape.
- ABC's cameras vividly conveyed the plight of one southern tribe, the Dinka, a herding people, among whom Nagele has ministered.
- The systematic destruction of the Dinka, and all Southern tribes, however, is exactly as Jordan describes.
- Sudan's Dinkas are among the tallest in the world.
- A clear example of this was in Sudan, where government proposals effectively replaced the Dinka's cattle-based economy with cotton.
- Khartoum has exploited this rivalry by employing the murahaleen to harass the Dinka in Bahr al-Ghazal and to run interference for the army's resupply trains to its garrison in the provincial capital, Wau.
- Cows are incredibly important to the Dinka, because when all else fails you can keep your children alive with the milk.
- To some detractors, Garang was a southern Sudanese, or ethnic Dinka tyrant.
- While in Egypt, he received an impromptu lesson from a fellow Dinka who, unknown to both, would blaze a trail that his pupil would later follow.
- In the whole of South Sudan there are two groupings: there are those people who live in the area called the Bahr al Ghazal and then there is another area called the Upper Nile area, but these are all Dinkas.
- Rebel groups and international human rights organizations have accused the Sudanese government of attempting genocide against (extermination of) the Dinka.
- The Dinka is the largest black tribe in Sudan, related to the Nuer and to another tribe called the Shilluk, in a group defined as the Nilotic tribes.
2The Nilotic language of the Dinka, with about 1.4 million speakers. Example sentencesExamples - In the south and west, English is spoken alongside the variety of indigenous languages, of which Dinka is the most widespread.
- In fact, the only interpreters in Ontario who speak his native language of Dinka reside in Toronto.
- He still has trouble speaking Dinka but the Olympics have given him a chance to win the support of his hosts.
- Linguists classify Dinka as a major language family in the Nilotic category of African languages.
- Sudanese tribal language gospel radio has already been going out from the new facility, bringing God's Word to many thousands in Dinka and Nuer villages.
adjectiveˈdiNGkə Relating to the Dinka or their language. Example sentencesExamples - In fact, as the story unraveled the ‘Arab’ liberator (perhaps Doka Awut, by true name) had himself been born of a Dinka mother and an Arab father.
- But there are moderate, peaceable Muslims who live in the north who are friends of the African Dinka people who are mainly affected by the slave raids.
- He presided over an utterly devastated and underdeveloped war-torn region from a ramshackle collection of huts in Rumbek, the designated capital of southern Sudan in the heart of Dinka country.
- Cut off from social relations with other Dinka slaves, for whom speaking their own language was a risk, mastering the Arabic language without instruction became a means of survival.
- A naked Dinka tribesman with a Kalashnikov over his shoulder is not an unusual sight.
- In the past he has consistently confounded sceptics, though his detractors claim he is at heart, and in sharp contrast to Garang, a secessionist and a Dinka nationalist.
- A set of drums is found in every Dinka settlement.
- Aside from the thousand Dinka killed in the main incident there were also reports of slavery of Dinka women and children in the Kordofan-Bahr al Ghazal borderlands.
- Rumbek, in the heart of Dinka territory, has already been designated as the new capital of southern Sudan.
- In the late 1980s it used local militias to help clear the Dinka population from the Bahr al-Ghazal region of southwest Sudan.
- His father, Deng Majok, who was paramount chief of the Ngoka Dinka, was both a pillar of Dinka culture and simultaneously a strong national figure committed to a modern unified Sudan.
- A few months later, when fighting with the government displaced thousands of Nuer, they were able to find refuge in Dinka territory thanks to the bonds forged at Wunlit.
- She says her friends probably still remember the day the tall, silent Dinka girl arrived at the Hackney Free and Parochial School.
- Like Garang, vice-president Salva Kiir Mayardit is a Dinka tribesman.
- Just four years ago, the civil war have made living conditions so bad for Sudan's southern Dinka people, that entire villages fled or were displaced.
- Shaking hands and hugging, they began to sing the Dinka song ‘Door,’ which means ‘reconciliation.’
- They would, among others, visit Dinka riverbank farmers in Bor County, southern Sudan, who grow crops and herd cattle.
- He was like any other Western observer, but with one difference - he had lived in Sudan for over 40 years and so knew the Dinka people and their language.
Origin From the local word Jieng ‘people’. |