Nilo-Saharan

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1. Nilo-Saharan - Noun

2. Nilo-Saharan - Adjective

3. Nilo-Saharan - Proper noun

Meaning

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

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Among Nilo-Saharan speakers is the belief in Divinity; evil is caused by divine judgement and retribution; prophets as middlemen between Divinity and man. Source: Internet

Each of the proposed higher-order groups has been rejected by other researchers: Greenberg's Chari–Nile by Bender and Blench, and Bender's Core Nilo-Saharan by Dimmendaal and Blench. Source: Internet

Anbessa Tefera and Peter Unseth consider the poorly attested Shabo language to be Nilo-Saharan, though unclassified within the family due to lack of data; Dimmendaal considers it to be a language isolate on current evidence. Source: Internet

Characteristics The constituent families of Nilo-Saharan are quite diverse. Source: Internet

For a time, his classification was considered bold and speculative, especially the proposal of a Nilo-Saharan languages family. Source: Internet

Greenberg's later contribution came in 1963, when he tied Chari–Nile to Songhai, Saharan, Maban, Fur, and Koman-Gumuz and coined the current name Nilo-Saharan for the resulting family. Source: Internet

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