Dinka
Americannoun
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Dinkas,
plural
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Dinka
plural
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a member of a tall, pastoral people of Sudan.
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the language of the Dinka, a Nilotic language closely related to Shilluk.
noun
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a member of a Nilotic people of South Sudan, noted for their height, which often reaches seven feet tall: chiefly herdsmen
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the language of this people, belonging to the Nilotic group of the Nilo-Saharan family
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Etymology
Origin of Dinka
from Dinka jieng people
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The conflict in has largely pitted the two largest ethnic groups against each other -- the Dinka aligned mostly with Kiir, and the Nuer mostly with Machar.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
Some in the camp even view the pope’s trip, which is being spent entirely in the capital, with suspicion, worrying that he could receive a sanitized, or Dinka, narrative.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2023
Kiir comes from South Sudan's largest ethnic group, the Dinka.
From Reuters ● Feb. 3, 2023
The battle for control mainly raged between the supporters of President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, and supporters of the First Vice-President Riek Machar, a Nuer.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2023
I knew I wanted to marry Martha in the Dinka manner.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
The town of Malakal, for example, changed hands roughly a dozen times during the course of the civil war and is now controlled by Dinkas.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2016
But they did — first the Dinkas and then, much more slowly, the Nuer.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2015
The U.N. hasn’t spelled out clearly who exactly the victims were, but it is likely that ethnic Dinkas were among the dead.
From Time ● Apr. 23, 2014
The recent unrest has pitted gangs from the Nuer ethnic group of Mr Machar against Dinkas - the majority group to which Mr Kiir belongs.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2013
The men of Shooli and Fatiko are the best proportioned that I have seen; without the extreme height of the Shillooks or Dinkas, they are muscular and well knit, and generally their faces are handsome.
From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker
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