The Tira are a sub-ethnic group of the Nuba peoples in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan state, in southern Sudan. The population of Tira was around 40,000 thousand in 1982

Language

They speak Tira of the Kordofanian languages group, in the major Niger–Congo language family. They also speak Sudanese Arabic.

See also

  • Index: Nuba peoples