Magyarab people

Magyarabs
Regions with significant populations
 Egypt and  Sudan : 7,000[1]
Languages
Arabic (Egyptian Arabic and Sudanese Arabic), English
formerly Hungarian
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Hungarians, Nubians, Egyptians

The Magyarab[1][2] are a small community living within Nubia, along the Nile in Sudan and Egypt. They have distant Hungarian ancestors who intermarried with locals[3] and probably date back to the late 16th century,[citation needed] when portions of both Hungary and Egypt were part of the Ottoman Empire.

  1. ^ a b Géza Balázs, The Story of Hungarian: A Guide to the Language, Corvina Books, 1997,p. 20
  2. ^ Iván Boldizsár, The New Hungarian Quarterly, Volume 7, Lapkiadó Publishing House, 1966, p. 148
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