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1. www.britannica.com › topic › Nilo-Saharan-languagesNilo-Saharan languages | African Language Family | Britannica

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   Nilo-Saharan languages. Related Topics: Songhai languages. Komuz languages. Maban languages. Fur languages. Sudanic languages. 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.

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   Jan 31, 2023 · Examples of Nilo-Saharan languages include Lugbara in Uganda, Zarma in Niger and Dholuo in Kenya. The Khoisan Languages Of Africa. The 40 to 70 languages in the Khoisan phylum include tongues that are mostly located in southern Africa — namely parts of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Angola.

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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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   Prominent languages are the Berti of Sudan, Kanuri of Nigeria, Teda of Niger, and Zaghawa of Sudan. Songhai is the most western branch of the Nilo-Saharan Family. It is found in Mali, Niger, and Nigeria embracing the Niger River, which flow through these countries.

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   What languages are spoken in the Nilo-Saharan region?

   • 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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   Which Nilo-Saharan language is a lingua franca?

   • 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.

   Nilo-Saharan languages - Diffusion, African, Speakers

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   Are Nilo-Saharan languages genetically related?

   • 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.

   Nilo-Saharan languages | African Language Family | Britannica

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   How many people speak Nilotic languages?

   • The Nilotic languages are spoken by some 14 million people ( see Nilotes), including the Dinka, Nuer, Luo, Turkana, Kalenjin, and Maasai. 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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   Nilo-Saharan languages. Kadu. Mimi-D. Shabo. 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.