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Eastern Sudanic languages are spoken from southern Egypt to northern Tanzania. Nubian (and possibly Meroitic ) gives Eastern Sudanic some of the earliest written attestations of African languages. However, the largest branch by far is Nilotic , spread by extensive and comparatively recent conquests throughout East Africa .
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There were two main branches; Eastern Sudanic was largely...
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In most classifications, the Eastern 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 spoken from southern Egypt to northern Tanzania. Quick Facts Geographic distribution, Linguistic classification ... Close.
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Eastern Sudanic languages, a group of languages representing the most diverse of the major divisions within the Nilo-Saharan language family. These languages are spoken from southern Egypt in the north to Tanzania in the south and from Ethiopia and Eritrea in the east to Chad in the west.
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Eastern Sudanic languages. Bari language. Nilo-Hamitic languages. Masai language. Nilotic languages, group of related languages spoken in a relatively contiguous area from northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, and western Ethiopia southward across Uganda and Kenya into northern Tanzania.
Eastern Sudanic languages are spoken from southern Egypt to northern Tanzania. Nubian gives Eastern Sudanic some of the earliest written attestations of African languages. However, the largest branch by far is Nilotic, spread by extensive and comparatively recent conquests throughout East Africa.
