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The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of around 210 African languages [1] spoken by somewhere around 70 million speakers, [1] mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet.
Maba (Maban, Mabang, or Bura Mabang) is a Nilo-Saharan language of the Maban branch spoken in Chad and Sudan. It is divided into several dialects, and serves as a local trade language. Maba is closely related to the Masalit language. [2] Most speakers of Maba reside in Chad with 542,000 speakers as of 2019.
This article is a list of language families. ... Nilo-Saharan: Tuu: 9 2,500 Africa: ... Index of language articles; Intercontinental Dictionary Series – Linguistics ...
The language is therefore sometimes called Karo or Kutuk ('mother tongue') rather than Bari. Bari is a tone language. It has vowel harmony, subject–verb–object word order, and agglutinative verbal morphology with some suppletion. A very competent dictionary and grammar were published in the 1930s, but are very difficult to find today.
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The Luo Languages are languages spoken by the Luo peoples. They include but are not fully limited to, Shilluk , Luwo , Thuri , Belanda Bor , Burun , Päri , Anuak , and Southern Luo . Although mostly being considered a Western Nilotic language and part of the Luo language group , the Burun languages are thought by linguist Roger Blench as a ...
The Eastern Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, themselves belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan; they are believed to have begun to diverge about 3,000 years ago, and have spread southwards from an original home in Equatoria in South Sudan.
Map of the Kunama Languages. The Kunama language has been included in the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family, though it is distantly related to the other languages, if at all. [citation needed] Kunama is spoken by the Kunama people of the Gash-Barka Region in western Eritrea and just across the Ethiopian border. The language has several ...