Kimr people

Kimr people
Total population
186,000
Regions with significant populations
Dar Kimr
Languages
Kimr Tama, Chadian Arabic
Religion
Sunni Islam

Kimr or Gimr is an ethnic group in West Darfur in Sudan and Chad. They speak Gimr, a dialect of Tama, a Nilo-Saharan language. The population of this ethnicity possibly is below 10,000. One 1996 source puts the population at over 50,000.[1]

  1. ^ Olson, James Stuart; Meur, Charles (1996). The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-313-27918-8.