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Nilo-Saharan

DEFINITIONS OF: Nilo-Saharan

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n a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania

Synonyms:
Nilo-Saharan language
Types:
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Chari-Nile
a group of Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of the Sudan and Zaire and Uganda and Tanzania
Saharan
a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad
Songhai
a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Songhai in Mali and Niger
Nilotic, Nilotic language
a group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group
Type of:
natural language, tongue
a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
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