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NILO-SAHARAN LANGUAGE

Dictionary entry overview: What does Nilo-Saharan language mean?

• NILO-SAHARAN LANGUAGE (noun)
The noun NILO-SAHARAN LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania

Familiarity information: NILO-SAHARAN LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• NILO-SAHARAN LANGUAGE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Nilo-Saharan; Nilo-Saharan language

Hypernyms ("Nilo-Saharan language" 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 language"):

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)

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