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Definition of Nilotic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Nile River or the people living near it.

2. Noun. A group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group.

3. Adjective. Of or relating to or constituting the Nilotic group of languages. "Nilotic syntax"

Definition of Nilotic

1. a. Of or pertaining to the river Nile; as, the Nilotic crocodile.

Definition of Nilotic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the Nile river or the people who live on its banks. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the Nilotic languages or the people who speak them. ¹

3. Noun. A group of languages spoken in parts of Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nilotic

Nikopol Nikos Nile Nile River Nile blue Nile blue A Nile crocodile Nile green Nile perch Nilgiri Hills

Nilo- Nilo-Saharan Nilo-Saharan language Niloscope Niloscopes Nilotic Nilotic language Nilphamari District Nilsson Nimbari

Nimitz Nimravus Nimrod Nimrods Nimzo-Indian Nina Nina Ross Nina from Carolina Nineveh Ningal

Literary usage of Nilotic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. In Darkest Africa, Or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of by Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... opposite of the Dwarfs: their descendants— Tribes nearly allied to the true negro type—Tribes of the nilotic basin—The Herdsmen—The traditions of ..."

2. Travels in Central Africa, and Explorations of the Western Nile Tributaries by John Petherick, Katherine Harriet Edlman Petherick (1869)
"seen that even the stuffed specimens from Khartoum had a shorter and more rounded face than the stuffed specimens of the nilotic Trionyx, though it had ..."

3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1844)
"On the Origin of the nilotic or Egyptian Population. By SAMUEL GEORGE MORTON, MD Since the physical characteristics of the ancient nilotic population, ..."

4. Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography by Daniel Garrison Brinton (1890)
"I. The nilotic Group. 2. The Sudanese Group. 3. The Senegambian Group. 4. The Guinean Group. III. THE NEGROIDS. Physical traits. Early admixtures. ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Both groups art immigrants, the Dantu from the south, the nilotic from the north. ... The nilotic tribes, probably an offshoot of the Acholi (17.11. ..."

6. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1844)
"'On the Origin of the nilotic or Egyptian Population, By SAMUEL GEORGE MORTON, MD Since the physical characteristics of the ancient nilotic population, ..."

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