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- Eastern Sudanic languages, a group of languages representing the most diverse of the major divisions within the Nilo-Saharan language family. These languages are spoken from southern Egypt in the north to Tanzania in the south and from Ethiopia and Eritrea in the east to Chad in the west.
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The Northern Eastern Sudanic, Eastern k Sudanic, Ek Sudanic, NNT or Astaboran languages may form a primary division of the proposed Eastern Sudanic family. They are characterised by having a / k / in the first person singular pronoun "I/me", as opposed to the Southern Eastern Sudanic languages, which have an / n /.
The Northern Eastern Sudanic, Eastern k Sudanic, Ek Sudanic, NNT or Astaboran languages may form a primary division of the proposed Eastern Sudanic family. They are characterised by having a /k/ in the first person singular pronoun "I/me", as opposed to the Southern Eastern Sudanic languages, which have an /n/.
Northern "K" Eastern Sudanic or "NNT" (Nubian, Nara, and Tama; see below for Nyima) Southern "N" Eastern Sudanic (Surmic, Temein, Jebel, Daju, Nilotic), though their exact relationships to each other remain obscure; Central Sudanic (including Birri and Kresh–Aja, which may prove to be closest to each other) Koman (including Gule)
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- ca. 70 million for all branches listed below.
- Proposed language family
Nilotic languages, group of related languages spoken in a relatively contiguous area from northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, and western Ethiopia southward across Uganda and Kenya into northern Tanzania. Nilotic languages are part of the Eastern Sudanic subbranch of Nilo-Saharan languages.
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Category: Geography & Travel. Related Topics: Nubian languages. Nilotic languages. Daju languages. Nyang’i languages. Nyima language. Eastern Sudanic languages, a group of languages representing the most diverse of the major divisions within the Nilo-Saharan language family.
In most classifications, the Eastern Sudanic languages are a group of nine families of languages that may constitute a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Eastern Sudanic languages are spoken from southern Egypt to northern Tanzania.
