The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of around 210 African languages spoken by somewhere around 70 million speakers, mainly in the upper parts...

sprachbund includes the Afroasiatic languages of Ethiopia, not the Nilo-Saharan languages. In 2000, Mauro Tosco questioned the validity of Ferguson's original...

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...

glottochronology for Saharan languages. Blench, Roger. m.s. Saharan and Songhay form a branch of Nilo-Saharan. Cyffer, Norbert. 2020. Saharan. In: Rainer Vossen...

in the Songhay languages has been the difficulty of determining their genetic affiliation; they are commonly taken to be Nilo-Saharan, as defined by Joseph...

residents primarily speak other languages from the Afroasiatic family, Nilo-Saharan languages or Indo-European languages. According to linguists, the first...

whole, and the country contains languages from the three major African language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo. Nigeria also has...

larger Nilo-Saharan language family. Western Nilotic is divided into three main clusters: Dinka–Nuer, Luo and Burun. The Luo Languages are languages spoken...

roots in Kuliak languages, which is typologically unusual among Nilo-Saharan languages and is more typical of some Australian languages such as Kunjen...

certainly Nilo-Saharan, with its closest relationship being with Eastern Sudanic. Like the Nilotic, Surmic, and Kuliak languages, Kadu languages have verb-initial...

Republic. Although the Aja are ethnically Kresh, their language is unintelligible to other Kresh languages. It is largely Banda in vocabulary, though it remains...

they are spoken in Wadai. The Daju languages belong to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan. The Daju languages are sub-classified as follows, following...

Ethiopian people of Eritrean descent Most languages spoken in Eritrea are from the Afroasiatic and Nilo-Saharan language family. Tigrinya Tigre Dahalik Arabic...

classified as closest to the Koman languages within the Nilo-Saharan language family. There are four to five Bʼaga languages. Grammatical forms are distinct...

within Nilo-Saharan, opinions vary as to their position within it. Koman languages in Ethiopia are in close contact with the Omotic Mao languages. In Ethiopia...

Congo–Saharan languages Eastern Sudanic languages Mande languages Nilo-Saharan languages Niger–Congo languages ^ Homburger for example, in her 1929 comparative...

or For[citation needed] languages constitute a small, closely related family, which is a proposed member of the Nilo-Saharan family. Its members are:...

included as a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. The languages are Kunama proper and Ilit. Blench, Roger. Nilo-Saharan languages list. v t e...

(2019). "The Nilo-Saharan Language Phylum". Numeral Systems of the World's Languages. Creider, Chet A. (1989). The syntax of the Nilotic languages: Themes...

grouped under the hypothetical Nilo-Saharan macro-family), are present in East Africa and Sahel. Austronesian languages are spoken in Madagascar and parts...

The Komuz languages are a proposed branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family which would include the Koman languages, the Gumuz languages and the Shabo...

native to Africa: Niger–Congo languages (including Bantu) in West, Central, Southeast and Southern Africa; Nilo-Saharan languages (unity debated) spoken from...

letter also occurs in the orthographies of many Niger–Congo and Nilo-Saharan languages, such as Ewe, Akan, Lingala, Dinka and Maasai, for the vowel [ɛ]...

grammatical features typical of Nilo-Saharan, and showed that the Nilo-Saharan vocabulary items are loans from Surmic languages (Dimmendaal to appear, Blench...

family of about sixty languages that have been included in the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family. Central Sudanic languages are spoken in the Central...

Kanuri (/kəˈnʊəri/) is a Saharan dialect continuum of the Nilo–Saharan language family spoken by the Kanuri and Kanembu peoples in Nigeria, Niger, Chad...

The Kunama language has been included in the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family, though it is distantly related to the other languages, if at all.[citation...

The Maban languages are a small family of languages which have been included in the hypothetical Nilo-Saharan language family. Maban languages are spoken...

Sahara), who spoke languages belonging to the Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan families; and Khoisan in Southern Africa, who spoke languages belonging to the...

Niger-Congo, and Nilo-Saharan—are represented in Sudan. Each is divided into groups that are in turn subdivided into sets of closely related languages. Two or...