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2 days ago · The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by somewhere around 70 million speakers, [1] 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 ...
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1 day 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:
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Apr 10, 2024 · 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 ...
Mar 24, 2024 · "A Typological Perspective on the Morphology of Nilo-Saharan Languages" published on by Oxford University Press. Nilo-Saharan, a phylum spread mainly across an area south of the Afro-Asiatic and north of the Niger-Congo phylum, was established as a genetic grouping by Greenberg.
3 days ago · Kalenjin, any member of the Kipsikis (Kipsigis), Nandi, Pokot, or other related peoples of west-central Kenya, northern Tanzania, and Uganda who speak Southern Nilotic languages of the Nilo-Saharan language family. The Kalenjin peoples probably expanded into the Rift Valley about ad 1500.
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Apr 2, 2024 · Paper presented at the International Symposium on Language Death in East Africa, Bad Homburg, 8-12 January 1990 Google Scholar. Mackey, William F. ( 1980 ), The Ecology of Language Shift', in Nelde, P. (ed.) Sprachkontakt und Sprachkonflikt (Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, Beiheft 32).
Apr 2, 2024 · The Kanuri language is classified as belonging to the Saharan branch of the Nilo-Saharan family. The Kanuri developed a powerful state at the Sudanese terminus of the major trans-Saharan trade route through the Bilma oasis to Libya. This empire, called Bornu (or Kanem-Bornu ), reached its zenith in the 16th century.
