The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of around 210 African languages spoken by somewhere around 70 million speakers, mainly in the upper parts...
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glottochronology for Saharan languages. Blench, Roger. m.s. Saharan and Songhay form a branch of Nilo-Saharan. Cyffer, Norbert. 2020. Saharan. In: Rainer Vossen...
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in the Songhay languages has been the difficulty of determining their genetic affiliation; they are commonly taken to be Nilo-Saharan, as defined by Joseph...
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much larger Nilo-Saharan language family. Western Nilotic is divided into two main clusters: Dinka–Nuer and Luo. The Luo Languages are languages spoken by...
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Sahara Saharan languages, a subgroup of the Nilo-Saharan languages This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Saharan. If an internal...
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grouped under the hypothetical Nilo-Saharan macro-family), are present in East Africa and Sahel. Austronesian languages are spoken in Madagascar and parts...
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Sudanic languages are a group of nine families of languages that may constitute a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Eastern Sudanic languages are...
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Paul Doornbos & M. Lionel Bender. 1983. "Languages of Wadai-Darfur", in ed. M. Lionel Bender, Nilo-Saharan Language Studies, African Studies Center, Michigan...
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residents primarily speak other languages from the Afroasiatic family, Nilo-Saharan languages or Indo-European languages. According to linguists, the first...
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whole, and the country contains languages from the three major African language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger–Congo. Nigeria also has...
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Kresh language of South Sudan, distinct enough to not be a dialect of Kresh. The name Dongo is also used by several Ubangian languages. Nilo-Saharan list...
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Republic. Although the Aja are ethnically Kresh, their language is unintelligible to other Kresh languages. It is largely Banda in vocabulary, though it remains...
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(2019). "The Nilo-Saharan Language Phylum". Numeral Systems of the World's Languages. Creider, Chet A. (1989). The syntax of the Nilotic languages: Themes...
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sprachbund includes the Afroasiatic languages of Ethiopia, not the Nilo-Saharan languages. In 2000, Mauro Tosco questioned the validity of Ferguson's original...
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roots in Kuliak languages, which is typologically unusual among Nilo-Saharan languages and is more typical of some Australian languages such as Kunjen...
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included as a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. The languages are Kunama proper and Ilit. Blench, Roger. Nilo-Saharan languages list. v t e...
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of the first Nubian speakers – spoke Cushitic languages. She argues that the Nilo-Saharan Nobiin language today contains a number of key pastoralism related...
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or For[citation needed] languages constitute a small, closely related family, which is a proposed member of the Nilo-Saharan family. Its members are:...
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Eastern and Southern, which he called Nilo-Hamitic, were a mixture of (Western) Nilotic and Hamitic languages (in particular, modern Cushitic), based...
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certainly Nilo-Saharan, with its closest relationship being with Eastern Sudanic. Like the Nilotic, Surmic, and Kuliak languages, Kadu languages have verb-initial...
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grammatical features typical of Nilo-Saharan, and showed that the Nilo-Saharan vocabulary items are loans from Surmic languages (Dimmendaal to appear, Blench...
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ed. Nicolai & Rottland, Fifth Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium. Nice, 24–29 August 1992. Proceedings. (Nilo-Saharan 10). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag...
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they are spoken in Wadai. The Daju languages belong to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan. The Daju languages are sub-classified as follows, following...
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The Kunama language has been included in the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family, though it is distantly related to the other languages, if at all.[citation...
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within Nilo-Saharan, opinions vary as to their position within it. Koman languages in Ethiopia are in close contact with the Omotic Mao languages. In Ethiopia...
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Daza (also known as Dazaga) is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Daza people (a sub-group of the Toubou people) inhabiting northern Chad and eastern...
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family of about sixty languages that have been included in the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family. Central Sudanic languages are spoken in the Central...
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Niger-Congo, and Nilo-Saharan—are represented in Sudan. Each is divided into groups that are in turn subdivided into sets of closely related languages. Two or...
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The Teda language, also known as Tedaga, Todaga, Todga, or Tudaga is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Teda, a northern subgroup of the Toubou people...
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Congo–Saharan languages Eastern Sudanic languages Mande languages Nilo-Saharan languages Niger–Congo languages ^ Homburger for example, in her 1929 comparative...
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