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Nilo-saharan

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Noun

1. nilo-saharan, nilo-saharan language

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

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Nilo-saharan

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noun
1. 
a family of languages of Africa, spoken chiefly by Nilotic peoples in a region extending from the Sahara to Kenya and Tanzania, including the Chari-Nile, Saharan, Songhai, and other branches. Classification is complicated by the fact that many languages spoken in this region belong to the unrelated Afro-Asiatic, Kordofanian, and Niger-Congo families
adjective
2. 
relating to or belonging to this family of languages

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Nilo-saharan

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noun
a large family of languages spoken chiefly in N and central Africa and including the Chari-Nile subfamily

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Nilo-saharan

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n.
A language family of sub-Saharan Africa spoken in the interior from Nigeria to Kenya and including Kanuri, Nubian, and the Nilotic languages.

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