The
Mahas are a sub-group of the
Nubian people located in
Sudan along the banks of the
Nile. The Mahas have been referred to as Nubians since the creation of
Lake Nasser when indigenous people of several different cultures were made to relocate. Some Mahas villages are intermixed with remaining remnants of the largely extinct Qamhat Bishari tribe. Just as
Ababda people are
Bejas that are bilingual in
Arabic and
Beja, and sometimes described as
Bedouins the Qamhat Mahas are ethnic Beja speaking a Nubian language.