nilosaharan language family
The Nilo-Saharan languages are a family of African languages. They are spoken by around 50 million people, who mainly live in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers. The languages go through 17 countries in the northern half of Africa: from Algeria to Benin in the west from Libya to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the center
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Other modern Nilo-Saharan languages with more than a million speakers are the Saharan language Kanuri (mainly in Nigeria), Nile Nubian, and the Nilotic languages Dinka (South Sudan), Kalenjin (Kenya), Luo (mainly in Kenya and Tanzania), and Teso (Uganda and Kenya). Of these, only Kanuri is a lingua franca in the proper sense.
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Where are Nilo-Saharan languages spoken? These languages are spoken - in Eastern Africa, mainly along the Lower Nile (Sudan and Ethiopia) and all the way to Tanzania and Kenya ; - in the centre, in the Democratic Republic of Congo and along the Chari River (Central African Republic and Chad) ; - to the West, in Benin and Nigeria ;
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The Nilo-Saharan language family includes 204 extremely diverse languages spoken by roughly 35 million people in the interior of northern Africa, including the greater Nile basin and its tributaries, as well as the central region of the Sahara desert. Scholars have argued for over 100 years about the best way to classify Nilo-Saharan languages.
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3: The origin and expansion of the Nilo-Saharan languages. The Nilotic language family is a member of the larger Nilo-Saharan phylum found in Africa. A Nilotic language is a group of East African languages which, according to the classification of the American scholar J. Greenberg, belong to the Chari-Nile branch of the Nilo-Saharan family of.
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Nilo-Saharan Next in size is the Nilo-Saharan family with about 80 languages. These occupy Eastern Africa and the North Eastern region of Africa, namely: Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Chad, the Sudan, etc. Learn more about the Nilo-Saharan language family on Ethnologue. Khoisan Last but not least is the Khoisan family with between 40 - 70 members.
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Nilo-Saharan languages spoken in the more eastern zones, such as many Nilotic and several Surmic languages as well as those belonging to the Kuliak and Kadu groups, belong to the former type, whereas western and northern Nilo-Saharan languages such as Fur, Kunama, and the Maban and Nubian languages have verb-final structures.
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The Saharan languages are a small family of languages across parts of the eastern Sahara, extending from northwestern Sudan to southern Libya,. They have been classified as part of the hypothetical but controversial Nilo-Saharan family. A comparative word list of the Saharan languages has been compiled by Václav Blažek (2007).
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Nilo-Saharan languages, a group of languages that form one of the four language stocks or families on the African continent, the others being Afro-Asiatic, Khoisan, and Niger-Congo. The Nilo-Saharan languages are presumed to be descended from a common ancestral language and, therefore, to be genetically related.
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The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by some 50-60 million people, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet.
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Nilo-Saharan: General overview In book: The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages Chapter: Nilo-Saharan: General overview Publisher: Oxford University Press Editors: Bedilu Wakjira, Ronny.
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Cite Permissions Share Abstract This chapter introduces the expanse of the Nilo-Saharan region, the language family that spread across Central and Eastern Africa. It lists the range of languages and language groups within the region such as Kunama, Eastern Sudanic, Nara, Berta, Nilotic, and Surmic.
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Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Nilo-Saharan languages . 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.
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The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by somewhere around 70 million speakers, [1] mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet.
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The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by somewhere around 70 million speakers, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet.
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The Nilo-Saharan language family includes 204 extremely diverse languages. Scholars have argued for over 100 years about the best way to classify them. However, today, most of them accept the genetic unity of the Nilo-Saharan languages as proposed in 1963 by Joseph Greenberg, an American anthropologist and linguist.