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May 20, 2024 · 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.
2 days ago · Nilo-Saharan languages. In Nigeria, the Nilo-Saharan language family is represented by: Saharan languages: Kanuri and Kanembu in the northeastern part of Nigeria in the states of Borno, Yobe and parts of Jigawa, and Bauchi states; Teda in northern Nigeria; Songhai languages:
3 days ago · The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, [a] are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. [1] [2] They comprise a group of closely related but mostly mutually unintelligible languages [3] spoken by Berber communities, who are indigenous to North Africa.
6 days ago · The most widely spoken languages in the Sahara are the Arabic dialects. Arabic, Berber, and its variants, which are now collectively referred to as Amazigh, are part of the Afro-Asiatic or Hamito-Semitic language family.
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May 15, 2024 · What Rottland’s work demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt is that Akie is a language closely related to the cluster of Kalenjin languages spoken in Kenya, northern Tanzania, and south-eastern Uganda, including the Kenyan traditional hunter-gatherer communities commonly referred to as Okiek.
5 days ago · While research in social sciences show diminishing matrilineal societies (e.g. Mwera and Sambaa), we argue in this paper that linguistically, this phenomenon unravels even societies whose matrilineal features appear to have been eroded by Islam, colonization and ujamaa policies. Keywords: Address forms. kinship terms. lexicalization. matrilineal.
