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3 days ago · 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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- ca. 70 million for all branches listed below.
- Proposed language family
3 days ago · The highly diverse Nilo-Saharan languages, first proposed as a family by Joseph Greenberg in 1963 might have originated in the Upper Paleolithic. Given the presence of a tripartite number system in modern Nilo-Saharan languages, linguist N.A. Blench inferred a noun classifier in the proto-language, distributed based on water courses in the ...
3 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.
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2 days ago · 79- (phylozone) Glottolog. sino1245. Groupings of Sino-Tibetan languages. Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, [1] [2] is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. [3] Around 1.4 billion people speak a Sino-Tibetan language. [4]
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- Proto-Sino-Tibetan
- One of the world's primary language families
1 day ago · The Kingdom of Kush ( / kʊʃ, kʌʃ /; Egyptian: 𓎡𓄿𓈙 𓈉 kꜣš, Assyrian: Kûsi, in LXX Χους or Αἰθιοπία; Coptic: ⲉϭⲱϣ Ecōš; Hebrew: כּוּשׁ Kūš ), also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and southern ...
Apr 17, 2024 · There are now 7,164 known languages spoken by people worldwide, ranging from Italian to Japanese, from Afrikaans to Zulu, according to Ethnologue, which is regarded as the most comprehensive database of global languages. Regretfully, this figure drops each month. Ninety percent of these languages are only spoken by 100,000 or fewer people.
