Nuba peoples

For the musical form, see Andalusi nubah or Nuubaat.

Nuba is a collective term used here for the various indigenous Negroid peoples who inhabit the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan state, in Sudan. Although the term is used to describe them as if they composed a single group, the Nuba is an umbrella term encompassing multiple distinct peoples that speak different languages, often belonging to unrelated language groups. Estimates of the Nuba population vary widely; the Sudanese government estimated that they numbered 1.07 million in 2003.