Established in the United Kingdom as the first emergency service number in the world, initially chosen because of its suitability at a time of rotary-dial telephones.

I don't know why they couldn't just keep it as it was! How hard is it to remember 911?
You mean 999...
I mean 999!
That's the American one!
Yeah!

2006 Feb. 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 2

When you call 999 in the UK, the operator usually answers the phone with "Emergency. Which service?"

The telephone number for emergency services in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Burma, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Sudan, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Dominica, Kiribati, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, and the Seychelles.

三條九 /三条九 (saam¹ tiu⁴ gau², literally “triple nine”)


piaster

The subdivision of the South Sudanese pound, equal to 1/100 of a pound.


piastre

From French piastre, from Italian piastra (“plate of wood or metal; coin”), probably from Latin emplastra.

der

A form of currency currently used as a subunit in the Middle Eastern and East African countries of Egypt, Jordan (partly including Palestine), Lebanon, South Sudan, Sudan, and Syria.


Southern Sudanese

Of, from, or relating to, Southern Sudan


South Sudan

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→ Japanese: 南スーダン (Minami Sūdan) (calque)

Republic of South Sudan
Republic of South Sudan#English

A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of South Sudan, formerly the southern part of Sudan.


South Sudanese

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From South Sudan + -ese, after Sudanese.

A person from South Sudan or of South Sudanese descent.


Southern Sudan

(historical) South Sudan: A former region in Sudan, which gained independence as South Sudan.


Ramciel

From the Dinka language, meaning either "where rhinoceroses meet together" or "central meeting place".


Sudans

Sandra Calkins, Enrico Ille and Richard Rottenburg Civic orders in the Sudans are wanting. They do not achieve what they are meant to achieve on their own, and it is always a bit of a puzzle why exactly one thing is accomplished instead of ...

2014, Calkins, Sandra, Ille, Enrico, Emerging Orders in the Sudans, Langaa RPCIG, →ISBN, page 1:


Avokaya

Democratic Republic of Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo

a Central Sudanic language spoken in southern South Sudan and parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo


merisa

From Juba Arabic meriisa, from Sudanese Arabic مريسة (marīsa).

Many of the Sudan women earned cash by making the local merisa beer, weaving mats and rugs and tanning skins for sale in the local markets.

1975, United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa, Employment of Women in the Sudan: Paper:

a form of millet beer popular in South Sudan