TheDanagla(Arabic:الدناقلة,"People ofDongola") are aNubiantribe in northernSudan[2][3]primarily settling between thethird Nile cataractandal Dabbah.Along with Kenzi, Fadicca, Halfawi, Sikot, andMahas,they form a significant part of theNubians.[4][5]They traditionally speak the NubianDongolawiorAndaandilanguage, which in the 19th century was still spoken as far south asKortiand probably even further upstream.[6]Today it is threatened by complete replacement byArabicas it is only spoken among parts of the population, especially the elders, although there are a lot of initiatives to revive it among the young generations.[7]Due to this some modern scholars count the Danagla to the Nubians instead of theSudanese Arabs,although many Danagla consider themselves to be a branch of theArabJa'alin tribe,who claim to descend fromAbbas.[8][9]

MahdyyialeaderMuhammad Ahmed(1843–1885), a Dongolawi[1]born on Labab Island nearDongola.

Etymology

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The ruins ofOld Dongola,after which the Danagla are named.

The termDanaglacomes from the city ofOld Dongola,which was the capital of theMakurian Kingdomduring Christianity inNubia,as well as the Muslim Kingdom of Dongola that came after it, which was also in control of the traditional lands of the tribe. Although the term Danagla probably wasn't used among the locals until the spread of Islam, the natives prefer to designate themselves as "Andaandi", which is a word inNubianthat means ( "That of our home" ), or Dongolaandi ( "That of Dongola" ).[citation needed]

Genetics

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According to Y-DNA analysis by Hassan et al (2008), around 44% of Nubians and Danaglas generally in Sudan carry thehaplogroup Jin individually varied but rather small percentages. The remainder mainly belong to theE1b1bclade (23%). Both paternal lineages are also common among localAfroasiatic-speaking populations.[10]

Thus it's observed that approximately 83% of their Nubian samples carried various subclades of the Africa-centered macrohaplogroup L. Of these mtDNA lineages, the most frequently borne clade was L3 (30.8%), followed by the L0a (20.6%), L2 (10.3%), L1 (6.9%), L4 (6.9%) and L5 (6.9%) haplogroups. The remaining 17% of Nubians belonged to sublineages of the Eurasian macrohaplogroups M (3.4% M/D, 3.4% M1) and N (3.4% N1a, 3.4% preHV1, 3.4% R/U6a1). These results can be used as rough estimates of genetics most Nubians hold.[citation needed]

Notes

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  1. ^Abu Salim & O'Fahey 1994,p. 304.
  2. ^Adebanwi, Wale; Orock, Rogers (2021-05-24).Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa.University of Michigan Press. p. 396.ISBN978-0-472-05481-7.Dangala (Arab tribe)
  3. ^Wai, Dunstan M. (1981).The African-Arab Conflict in the Sudan.Africana Publishing Company. p. 228.ISBN978-0-8419-0631-0.Dangala Arabs
  4. ^Khogali, Mustafa M. (1991)."The Migration of the Danagla to Port Sudan: A Case Study on the Impact of Migration on the Change of Identity".GeoJournal.25(1): 63–71.doi:10.1007/BF00179772.JSTOR41145258.S2CID153646409.Retrieved18 September2023.
  5. ^"Sudan"(PDF).Retrieved20 September2023.
  6. ^Gerhards 2023,p. 138–141, 147.
  7. ^"Glottolog 4.6 - Dongola".glottolog.org.Retrieved2022-09-07.
  8. ^Adams 1977,pp. 560–562.
  9. ^Bjokelo 2003,p. 7.
  10. ^Hollfelder, Nina; Schlebusch, Carina M.; Günther, Torsten; Babiker, Hiba; Hassan, Hisham Y.; Jakobsson, Mattias (2017-08-24)."Northeast African genomic variation shaped by the continuity of indigenous groups and Eurasian migrations".PLOS Genetics.13(8): e1006976.doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1006976.ISSN1553-7390.PMC5587336.PMID28837655.

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