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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...
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  • Aja is a Central Sudanic language spoken in the southern South Sudanese province of Bahr el Ghazal and along the South Sudanese border in the Central...
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  • are two languages called Aja: Aja language (Niger-Congo), part of the Gbe dialect continuum, spoken in Benin and Togo Aja language (Nilo-Saharan), spoken...
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  • living in South Sudan Aja language (Nilo-Saharan), a language spoken in Sudan Aja (Hindu mythology), a prince of the Ikshvaku dynasty Aja (orisha), or Ajija...
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    glottochronology for Saharan languages. Blench, Roger. m.s. Saharan and Songhay form a branch of Nilo-Saharan. Cyffer, Norbert. 2020. Saharan. In: Rainer Vossen...
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    grouped under the hypothetical Nilo-Saharan macro-family), are present in East Africa and Sahel. Austronesian languages are spoken in Madagascar and parts...
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  • Thumbnail for Songhay languages
    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...
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    Schadeberg (1981), Kadu is widely seen as Nilo-Saharan. Evidence for a Niger-Congo affiliation is rejected, and a Nilo-Saharan relationship is controversial. A...
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  • grammatical features typical of Nilo-Saharan, and showed that the Nilo-Saharan vocabulary items are loans from Surmic languages (Dimmendaal to appear, Blench...
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  • Thumbnail for Central Sudanic languages
    family of about sixty languages that have been included in the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family. Central Sudanic languages are spoken in the Central...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Comparison of numerals in individual languages: Nilotic peoples Paranilotic languages Nilo-Saharan languages Kir–Abbaian languages Proto-Nilotic reconstructions...
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  • ed. Nicolai & Rottland, Fifth Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium. Nice, 24–29 August 1992. Proceedings. (Nilo-Saharan 10). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag...
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    whole, and the country contains languages from the three major African language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger–Congo. Nigeria also has...
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  • Thumbnail for Koman languages
    classified as part of the Nilo-Saharan family. However, due to the paucity of evidence, many scholars treat it as an independent language family. Among scholars...
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    The Fur or For languages constitute a small, closely related family, which is a proposed member of the Nilo-Saharan family. Its members are: Fur in western...
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  • Sara. Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Kresh-Aja". Glottolog 4.3. Nilo-Saharan list (Blench 2000)...
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  • classified as closest to the Koman languages within the Nilo-Saharan language family. There are four to five Bʼaga languages. Grammatical forms are distinct...
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  • consider that Nubian languages form a primary language family. Older classifications consider Nubian to be a branch of the Nilo-Saharan phylum, a proposal...
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  • Thumbnail for Kuliak languages
    have cognates in other Nilo-Saharan languages, and suggests that the VC roots may have been eroded from earlier Nilo-Saharan roots that had initial consonants...
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    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...
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  • Thumbnail for Maban languages
    The Maban languages are a small family of languages which have been included in the hypothetical Nilo-Saharan stock. Maban languages are spoken in eastern...
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    family, whereas Kadu is now widely seen as a branch of the proposed Nilo-Saharan family. In 1963, Joseph Greenberg added them to the Niger–Congo family...
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  • 1976. The Kresh Group, Aja and Baka Language (Sudan) De Calonne, Beaufaict. 1921 Azande Roger Blench (2012) Nilo-Saharan language listing Birri word list...
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  • Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
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  • Thumbnail for Languages of South Sudan
    indigenous languages are classified under the Nilo-Saharan language family; collectively, they represent two of the first order divisions of Nilo-Saharan (Eastern...
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  • Thumbnail for Nara language
    (Barya) language is spoken by the Nara people in an area just to the north of Barentu in the Gash-Barka Region of western Eritrea. The language is often...
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  • Thumbnail for Eastern Jebel languages
    The Eastern Jebel languages are a small subfamily belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subgroup of Nilo-Saharan. They are spoken in the hills of An Nil al...
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  • Jakobi (2019) Linguistic features and typologies in languages commonly referred to as 'Nilo-Saharan', Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics v t e v...
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