"fia" . "Nobiin, or Mahas, is a Northern Nubian language of the Nilo-Saharan phylum. \u2018Nobiin\u2019 is the genitive form of N\u00F2\u00F2b\u00ED\u00ED \u2018Nubian\" and literally means \u2018(language) of the Nubians\". Another term used is Noban tamen, meaning \u2018the Nubian language\u2019.At least 2,500 years ago, the first Nubian speakers migrated into the Nile Valley from the southwest. Old Nubian is thought to be ancestral to Nobiin, the latter of which is a tonal language with contrastive vowel and consonant length."@en . . "Nobiin"@en . . . . "N\u00F2b\u00ED\u00EDn"@en . . . . .