Northern Sudan along the Nile, and southern Egypt around Aswan and Kom Ombo
Speakers
roughly 500,000 to 1 million
Writing system
Latin and Arabic scripts today; historically its own Old Nubian alphabet
Nobiin is the living descendant of Old Nubian, the language of the medieval Christian kingdoms of Nubia — one of the very few African languages with its own written record going back more than a thousand years. Many Nubian families were displaced by the Aswan High Dam, so learning it is closely tied to keeping that heritage alive.
What makes Nobiin different
It is a Nile-Nubian language, not Bantu and not Semitic, so its vocabulary looks unrelated to Arabic or Swahili despite the neighbours.
Old Nubian was written in a Greek-derived alphabet with extra letters borrowed from Coptic and Meroitic — surviving manuscripts date from around the 8th century.
Vowel length changes meaning, so a short and a long vowel can be two different words.
Word order puts the verb last, and grammar is marked by endings added to nouns and verbs rather than by prepositions.
Your first Nobiin phrases
Each phrase is written the way it's spelled, then respelled for English speakers with the stressed syllable in capitals.