Nuer

[ noo-er ]

noun,plural Nu·ers, (especially collectively) Nu·er·er for 1.

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

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The perpetrators of political turmoil in Juba are not Dinka or Nuer, nor any other ethnic people who make up South Sudan.
The South Sudan Clashes Are No Tribal War | Valentino Deng | December 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Reports of Nuer being targeted by state security forces abound.
Preventing South Sudan’s Civil War | John Prendergast, Akshaya Kumar | December 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
An extensive trade in arms was carried on between Abyssinia and the Nuer country.
The Annual Register 1914 | Anonymous
There are societies today (the Netsidik, the Nuer, the Bassari, to name a few) that still prefer the oral to the written.
The Civilization of Illiteracy | Mihai Nadin

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