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Nilotic languages
Small language family of East Africa / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nilotic languages are a group of related languages spoken across a wide area between South Sudan and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples.
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Nilotic | |
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Ethnicity | Nilotic peoples |
Geographic distribution | Southwestern Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, northeastern Congo (DRC), northern/eastern Uganda, western/southern Kenya and northern Tanzania |
Native speakers | 31 million[1] |
Linguistic classification | Nilo-Saharan? |
Proto-language | Proto-Nilotic |
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Glottolog | nilo1247 |
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