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4 days ago · Southern Nilotic languages such as Kalenjin and Datooga; Western Nilotic languages such as Luo, Nuer and Dinka; Before Greenberg's reclassification, Nilotic was used to refer to Western Nilotic alone, with the other two being grouped as related "Nilo-Hamitic" languages. Blench (2012) treats the Burun languages as a fourth subgroup of Nilotic.
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3 days ago · We're talking about languages spoken in Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, that area of Eastern Africa. There's also the Nilo-Saharan group, which is related to Afro-Asiatic but seems to be its own language family. These are the languages of the Upper Nile, as it were, and interior parts of Eastern Africa; we’re talking Nubian, Massai, and many others.
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5 days ago · In the northern and least-populous Saharan regions, Arabs and Imazighen (Berbers; singular Amazigh) of the Afro-Asiatic language family predominate. South of a line connecting the course of the Sénégal River, the Niger River, and the southern two-thirds of Nigeria, Niger-Congo languages are spoken.
5 days ago · The three main groups of Nilotes are Plain Nilotes (Maasai, Samburu, Turkana), River Lake Nilotes (Kenyan Luo), and Highland Nilotes (Kalenjin, Datog).
4 days ago · Spoken across Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Ghana, Benin, Togo, Chad, and Sudan, Hausa serves as an official language or lingua franca in regions such as K ano, Kaduna, Maradi, Ngaoundere, and N’Djamena.
3 days ago · This is a list of official languages by country and territory. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part of the state, or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority language .
4 days ago · Current estimates suggest there are around 290 languages spoken in Mexico, including Spanish and indigenous languages. About 94% of Mexico’s population speaks only Spanish. Around 5-6% of Mexicans speak Spanish and indigenous languages.
