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Nilotic

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Noun

1. nilotic, nilotic language

a group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group

Adjective

2. nilotic

of or relating to the Nile River or the people living near it

3. nilotic

of or relating to or constituting the Nilotic group of languages

Example Sentences:
'Nilotic syntax'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Nilotic

see synonyms of nilotic
adjective
1. 
of or relating to the Nile
2. 
of, relating to, or belonging to a tall pastoral people inhabiting South Sudan, parts of Kenya and Uganda, and neighbouring countries
3. 
relating to or belonging to the group of languages spoken by the Nilotic peoples
noun
4. 
a group of languages of E Africa, including Luo, Dinka, and Masai, now generally regarded as belonging to the Chari-Nile branch of the Nilo-Saharan family

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Nilotic

see synonyms of nilotic
adjective
1. 
of the Nile or the Nile Valley
2. 
of the peoples living in the valley of the White Nile, including the Dinkas
noun
3. 
a group of Chari-Nile languages spoken in the upper Nile Valley

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Nilotic

see synonyms of nilotic
adj.
1. Of or relating to the Nile or the Nile Valley.
2. Of or relating to the peoples who speak Nilotic languages.
n.
A large group of Nilo-Saharan languages, spoken in South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and northern Tanzania and including Masai.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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