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Definition of Nilotic language
1. Noun. A group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group.
Generic synonyms: Chari-nile
Specialized synonyms: Dinka, Luo, Masai
Derivative terms: Nilotic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nilotic Language
Literary usage of Nilotic language
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kenya by Eva Ambros (1999)
"Among the exponents of the Nilotic language group is one of Kenya's smallest ...
That they are now classified in the Nilotic language group is a living ..."
2. The East Africa Protectorate by Charles Eliot (1905)
"... at the head of which is the railway terminus, are inhabited by a race who
speak a Nilotic language. They are often called simply ..."
3. The Uganda Protectorate: An Attempt to Give Some Description of the Physical by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1902)
"... Mr. Wakefield was able to quote from these and other sources showed the dialect
to be closely related to the Acholi—a Nilotic language—it was considered ..."
4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1907)
"... and Nilotic language-families, with which it possesses features of fundamental
relationship. What we now want from National South Africa is sound, ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The missionaries have recently compiled and printed in Uganda, a grammar,
phrase-book, and vocabulary of a Nilotic language, ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Of Hamitic strain arc tbe (qv), a race of cattle-rearers speaking a Nilotic
language, whj occupy part of the uplands bordering on the eastern ..."
7. Types of Mankind Or, Ethnological Researches: Based Upon the Ancient by Josiah Clark Nott, George Robins Gliddon (1855)
"It is the deduction of Lepsius, that Egypt had possessed an African population,
and a Nilotic language, before the foundation of the Old Empire ; and that ..."
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