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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.
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
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The Kunama cluster is spoken in western and northern Eritrea as well as around Barentu in Ethiopia, and consists of Kunama proper (also known as Baada, Baaza or Diila), a number of closely related lects (Aimasa, Barka, Laki-Tukura, Marda, Sokodas, and Tika), and the more distantly related languages Bitama and Ilit.
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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