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The Chadic languages form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken in parts of the Sahel. They include 150 languages spoken across northern Nigeria, southern Niger, southern Chad, the Central African Republic, and northern Cameroon. By far the most widely spoken Chadic language is Hausa, a lingua franca of much of inland ...
The heart of the handbook is in parts II–VI, with four overview chapters on the Cushitic, Ethiosemitic, Nilo-Saharan, and Omotic language families, concise grammatical descriptions of 33 oral languages and Ethiopian Sign Language, as well as two chapters on the particularities of two non-native Ethiopian languages, English and Arabic. The ...
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. Kunama is spoken by the Kunama people of the Gash-Barka Region in western Eritrea and just across the Ethiopian border. The language has several dialects including: Barka, Marda, Aimara, Odasa ...
Feb 1, 2023 · 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. The languages extend through 17 nations in the northern half of Africa: from Algeria to Benin in the ...
Lango (also called Leb-Lango) is a Southern Luo language or dialect cluster of the Western Nilotic language branch. [3] The word "Lango" is used to describe both the language spoken by the indigenous and the tribe itself. It is mainly spoken in Lango sub-region, in the North Central Region of Uganda. An orthography for it using the Latin script ...
Nilo-Saharan Language Family. 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 ...
Nilotic languages are part of the Eastern Sudanic subbranch of Nilo-Saharan languages. The Nilotic languages are usually divided into a Western group (containing such languages as Acholi, Burun, Dinka, Lango, Luo, Mabaan, Nuer, and Shilluk), an Eastern group (including Bari, Karimojong, Lotuxo, Maa [the language of the Maasai people], Teso ...
