Nilo-Saharan
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Nilo-Saharan — [nī′lō sə her′ən] n. a large family of languages spoken chiefly in N and central Africa and including the Chari Nile subfamily … English World dictionary
Nilo-Saharan — noun a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania • Syn: ↑Nilo Saharan language • Hypernyms: ↑natural language, ↑tongue • Hyponyms: ↑Chari Nile, ↑Saharan, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Nilo-Saharan languages — Nilo Saharan Geographic distribution: Central and East Africa Linguistic classification: One of the world s primary language families Subdivisions: Eastern Sudanic Central Sudanic ? Kadu Maban … Wikipedia
Nilo-Saharan languages — Group of perhaps 115 African languages spoken by more than 27 million people from Mali to Ethiopia and from southernmost Egypt to Tanzania. The concept of Nilo Saharan as a single stock combining a number of earlier groupings was introduced in… … Universalium
Nilo-Saharan language — noun a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania • Syn: ↑Nilo Saharan • Hypernyms: ↑natural language, ↑tongue • Hyponyms: ↑Chari Nile, ↑Saharan, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Nilo-Saharan — /ˌnaɪloʊ səˈharən/ (say .nuyloh suh hahruhn) noun an African family of languages including the Chari Nile, Saharan and Songhai branches; spoken, along with other language families, in an area reaching from the Sahara to Tanzania and Kenya …
Nilo-Saharan — /nuy loh seuh har euhn, hair , hahr /, n. a family of African languages, including the Central and Eastern Sudanic groups as well as Kanuri, Songhai, and other languages, spoken from the Sahara southward to the Democratic Republic of the Congo… … Universalium
Nilo-Saharan — [ˌnʌɪləʊsə hα:rən] adjective denoting or belonging to a phylum of languages including the Nilotic family and other languages of northern and eastern Africa … English new terms dictionary
Aja language (Nilo-Saharan) — language name=Aja states=Sudan, Central African Republic speakers=200 (1993) familycolor=Nilo Saharan iso2=ssa|iso3=ajaAja is a Nilo Saharan language of the Central Sudanic subgroup, spoken in the southern Sudanese province of Bahr el Ghazal and… … Wikipedia
Designations and classification of the Nilo-Saharan languages — ▪ Table Designations and classification of the Nilo Saharan languages former classification (1963) current classification 1. Songhai 1. Songhai 2. Saharan 2. Saharan 3. Maba 3. Maban 4. Fur 4. Fur 5. Chari Nile 5. Eastern Sudanic Eastern… … Universalium
