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    NILO-SAHARAN LANGUAGE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    Nilo-Saharan; Nilo-Saharan language

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    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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