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...
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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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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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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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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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much larger Nilo-Saharan language family. Western Nilotic is divided into two main clusters: Dinka–Nuer and Luo. The Luo Languages are languages spoken by...
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residents primarily speak other languages from the Afroasiatic family, Nilo-Saharan languages or Indo-European languages. According to linguists, the first...
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(2019). "The Nilo-Saharan Language Phylum". Numeral Systems of the World's Languages. Creider, Chet A. (1989). The syntax of the Nilotic languages: Themes...
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sprachbund includes the Afroasiatic languages of Ethiopia, not the Nilo-Saharan languages. In 2000, Mauro Tosco questioned the validity of Ferguson's original...
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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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