Nilotic languages

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Nilotic
Geographic
distribution:		 Southern Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and northern Tanzania
Genetic
classification:		 Nilo-Saharan
 Eastern Sudanic
  Nilotic
Subdivisions:


The Nilotic languages are a group of Eastern Sudanic languages spoken across a wide area between southern Sudan and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples, particularly associated with cattle-herding. They are divided into three subgroups:

Before Greenberg's reclassification, the term was used to refer to Western Nilotic alone (with the other two being grouped as "Nilo-Hamitic languages".)

[edit] References

  • Creider, Chet A. (1989). The syntax of the Nilotic languages: Themes and variations. Berlin: D. Reimer. ISBN 3-496-00483-5. 

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