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NILO-SAHARAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania
Synonyms:
Nilo-Saharan; Nilo-Saharan language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Nilo-Saharan" is a kind of...):
natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Nilo-Saharan"):
Chari-Nile (a group of Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of the Sudan and Zaire and Uganda and Tanzania)
Saharan (a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad)
Songhai (a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Songhai in Mali and Niger)
