Nuer

[ noo-er ]

noun

, plural Nu·ers, (especially collectively) Nu·er·er

1. a member of a tribal people who live along the Nile in southern Sudan and subsist chiefly by raising cattle.
2. the Nilotic language of the Nuer people.

Example Sentences

The perpetrators of political turmoil in Juba are not Dinka or Nuer, nor any other ethnic people who make up South Sudan.

From The Daily Beast

Reports of Nuer being targeted by state security forces abound.

From The Daily Beast

An extensive trade in arms was carried on between Abyssinia and the Nuer country.

From Project Gutenberg

There are societies today (the Netsidik, the Nuer, the Bassari, to name a few) that still prefer the oral to the written.

From Project Gutenberg