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Nilo-Saharan

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Ni·lo-Sa·har·an  (nl-s-hrn, -härn)
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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Noun1.Nilo-Saharan - a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania
Nilo-Saharan language
natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer 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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