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The contents of the Rek people page were merged into Dinka people on 21 July 2018 and it now redirects there. For the contribution history and old versions of the merged article please see its history.
Rek are not an ethnic group. They are a section of the Dinka and the most numerous sort at that. Rek dialect, South-Western Dinka (dsk), forms the basis of the standard written Dinka language. The Rek have never been described as being an ethnic group in any academic publication, ethnographic survey nor are they treated as such by any institution. The incumbent President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit, is a Rek Dinka.
The other large sections of Dinka are the Bor, Ruwing, Padang and Agaar, I believe. There could one day be a case for a separate article for each kind but the present article for the ethnic group as whole is too poor to justify one. This stub seems unlikely to go anywhere since there's very little documented about most S. Sudanese ethnicities as is nevermind the sections within each. -- Lestadii27 (talk) 03:23, 5 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
