the larger Nilotic language family, along with the Western Nilotic languages and the Eastern Nilotic languages. The Southern Nilotic languages are generally... 5 KB (333 words) - 22:21, 9 April 2024 |
Proto-Eastern Nilotic. Eastern Nilotic Bari languages Teso–Lotuko–Maa: Teso–Turkana (or Ateker; incl. Karimojong) Lotuko–Maa: Lotuko languages Lango language Lopit... 9 KB (432 words) - 22:20, 9 April 2024 |
Western Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, along with the Eastern Nilotic languages and Southern Nilotic languages;... 4 KB (277 words) - 22:20, 9 April 2024 |
The Nilotic peoples are people indigenous to the Nile Valley who speak Nilotic languages. They inhabit South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, the... 49 KB (5,274 words) - 09:07, 28 April 2024 |
dying. There are also three languages that recently became extinct. Most languages spoken locally belong to two broad language families: Niger-Congo (Bantu... 9 KB (571 words) - 06:02, 20 April 2024 |
Paranilotic is a group of languages proposed by Carl Meinhof. Karl Lepsius had established the Nilotic languages as a family, with Western, Eastern, and... 1 KB (144 words) - 10:37, 5 April 2016 |
with over 70 generally estimated languages spoken. 43 of its living languages fall into four main families—Bantu, Nilotic, Central Sudanic and Kuliak. Of... 9 KB (938 words) - 08:26, 22 February 2024 |
The Nuer language (Thok Naath) ("people's language") is a Nilotic language of the Western Nilotic group. It is spoken by the Nuer people of South Sudan... 14 KB (1,199 words) - 22:53, 4 April 2024 |
Dinka (natively Thuɔŋjäŋ, Thoŋ ë Jieng or simply Jieng) is a Nilotic dialect cluster spoken by the Dinka people, a major ethnic group of South Sudan.... 15 KB (1,370 words) - 09:48, 2 May 2024 |
Faucalized voice (section Nilotic languages) contrastive between singular and plural nouns in Dinka and other Nilotic languages (Nuer and Shilluk), but this relationship is less regular. In the... 6 KB (564 words) - 07:22, 5 December 2023 |
The Kalenjin languages are a family of a dozen Southern Nilotic languages spoken in Kenya, eastern Uganda and northern Tanzania. The term Kalenjin comes... 7 KB (274 words) - 22:22, 9 April 2024 |
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... 65 KB (5,361 words) - 12:57, 16 April 2024 |
belongs to the Luo branch of the Western Nilotic subfamily of the Nilotic languages. The Shilluk people formed today's Shilluk Kingdom in southern Sudan... 8 KB (811 words) - 11:39, 26 April 2024 |
The Maa languages are a group of closely related Eastern Nilotic languages (or from a linguistic perspective, dialects, as they appear to be mutually intelligible)... 4 KB (449 words) - 12:34, 29 April 2024 |
the Eastern Nilotic language Karimojong. Turkana, another Eastern Nilotic language, is found to the northeast. To the east, the Maa languages Samburu and... 2 KB (226 words) - 16:24, 24 September 2023 |
proposed that Aroid languages might be a part of Nilotic. Citing lexical similarities with Surmic and other non-Nilotic Nilo-Saharan languages, Yigezu (2013)... 7 KB (460 words) - 02:32, 10 April 2024 |
The Elgeyo language, or Kalenjin proper, are a dialect cluster of the Kalenjin branch of the Nilotic language family. In Kenya, where speakers make up... 14 KB (1,857 words) - 06:50, 6 March 2024 |
Republic of the Congo. They form one of the two branches of the Western Nilotic family, the other being the Dinka–Nuer. The Southern Luo varieties are... 4 KB (278 words) - 07:57, 14 January 2024 |
Nilotic language spoken in Ethiopia by the Nyangatom people. It is an oral language only, having no working orthography at present. Related languages... 3 KB (99 words) - 22:19, 9 November 2023 |
Dholuo (redirect from Luo language (Kenya and Tanzania)) Dholuo dialect (pronounced [d̪ólúô]) or Nilotic Kavirondo, is a dialect of the Luo group of Nilotic languages, spoken by about 4.2 million Luo people... 15 KB (1,187 words) - 22:07, 14 April 2024 |
Bari is the Nilotic language of the Karo people, spoken over large areas of Central Equatoria state in South Sudan, across the northwest corner of Uganda... 6 KB (371 words) - 22:22, 9 April 2024 |
Kalenjin people (section Language) Kalenjin Language; while in combination with Datooga languages of Tanzania, this cluster is called Southern Nilotic languages. The Kalenjin language, along... 136 KB (8,744 words) - 14:54, 27 April 2024 |
Masai) or Maa (English: /ˈmɑːsaɪ/; autonym: ɔl Maa) is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people... 13 KB (1,450 words) - 18:41, 10 February 2024 |
Kalenjin language a Southern Nilotic language of eastern Uganda. Kupsabiny and a dozen other languages form the Southern Nilotic branch of the Nilotic family... 5 KB (286 words) - 23:28, 26 July 2023 |
The Burun languages are a branch of the Nilotic languages. They include: North Burun (Maiak, Kurmuk, Burun proper) South Burun (Mabaan, Ulu, Jumjum) The... 2 KB (167 words) - 18:37, 9 November 2023 |
(see Languages of Africa). Languages spoken locally belong to three broad language families: Niger-Congo (Bantu branch) and Nilo-Saharan (Nilotic branch)... 6 KB (521 words) - 17:37, 18 April 2024 |