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- In addition to Kunama, Berta, and the Eastern Sudanic and Central Sudanic languages (once in the Chari-Nile group), most scholars now consider Nilo-Saharan to include Songhai, Saharan, Maban, Komuz, and Fur.
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Nilo-Saharan languages. Related Topics: Songhai languages. Komuz languages. Maban languages. Fur languages. Sudanic languages. 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 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.
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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.
It lists the range of languages and language groups within the region such as Kunama, Eastern Sudanic, Nara, Berta, Nilotic, and Surmic. The geographical spread probably reflects the chronological and historical diffusion of the ancestral languages from the west.
The Nilotic languages are spoken by some 14 million people ( see Nilotes), including the Dinka, Nuer, Luo, Turkana, Kalenjin, and Maasai. Nilo-Saharan languages, Group of perhaps 115 African languages spoken by more than 27 million people from Mali to Ethiopia and from southernmost Egypt to Tanzania.
Prominent languages are the Berti of Sudan, Kanuri of Nigeria, Teda of Niger, and Zaghawa of Sudan. Songhai is the most western branch of the Nilo-Saharan Family. It is found in Mali, Niger, and Nigeria embracing the Niger River, which flow through these countries.
