Dair language

{{Short description|Moribund Nubian language of Sudan}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Dair

| altname =Thaminyi

| states = Sudan

| region = Nuba Mountains

| speakers = 1,000

| date = 1978

| ref = e25

| familycolor = Nilo-Saharan

| fam2 = Eastern Sudanic

| fam3 = Northern Eastern

| fam4 = Nubian

| fam5 = Central

| fam6 = Hill

| fam7 = (Unclassified)

| map2 = Lang Status 40-SE.svg

| mapcaption2 = {{center|{{small|Dair is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}}}

| iso3 = drb

| glotto = dair1239

| glottorefname = Dair

}}Dair (also Dabab, Daier, Thaminyi) is a moribund Hill Nubian language spoken in the northern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It was spoken by around 1,000 people in 1978 in the Jibaal as-Sitta hills, between Dilling and Delami.

According to a wordlist by German explorer Werner Munzinger, in his 1864 book Ostafrikanische Studien (East African Studies), the Dair language was called Kuliniri by the local people at that time.[https://archive.org/details/ostafrikanisches00munz/page/546/mode/1up] Nubasprache (Nuba Language)