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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.
Nilo-Saharan: Central Sudanic: 63 9,145,280 Africa: Nilo-Saharan: Daju: 7 ... Extinct language – Language that no longer has any first-language or second-language ...
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.
Nilo-Saharan language stubs (154 P) Pages in category "Nilo-Saharan languages" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Tonal languages are found throughout the world but are especially common in Africa - in fact, there are far more tonal than non-tonal languages in Africa. Both the Nilo-Saharan and the Khoi-San phyla are fully tonal. The large majority of the Niger–Congo languages are also tonal.
Noted Saharan languages include Kanuri (9.5 million speakers, around Lake Chad in Chad, Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon), Daza (700,000 speakers, Chad), Teda (60,000 speakers, northern Chad), and Zaghawa (350,000 speakers, eastern Chad and Sudan). They have been classified as part of the hypothetical but controversial Nilo-Saharan family.
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 Koman languages are a small, close-knit family of languages located along the Ethiopia–Sudan border with about 50,000 speakers. They are conventionally classified as part of the Nilo-Saharan family. However, due to the paucity of evidence, many scholars treat it as an independent language family.