Sudanic
Speech parts
1. Sudanic - Adjective
2. Sudanic - Proper noun
Meaning
A polyphyletic grouping of African languages spoken in the Sahel, now widely considered to be inaccurate.
A proposed subgroup of the Nilo-Saharan languages, usually consisting of the Central Sudanic and Eastern Sudanic languages.
Sudanic (not comparable)
Relating to these languages or the people who speak them.
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A historical reconstruction of West Sudanic was published in 1927, and in his 1935 'Charakter und Einteilung der Sudansprachen' he conclusively established the relationship between Bantu and West Sudanic.
From the 11th century, by which time the rulers of the Sudanic empires had embraced Islam, it spread south into the northern areas of contemporary Ivory Coast.
From the eleventh century, by which time the rulers of the Sudanic empires had embraced Islam, it spread south into the northern areas of contemporary Ivory Coast. citation.
His most important later publication Die westlichen Sudansprachen 1927a divided these into East and West Sudanic languages and laid the basis for what would become Niger–Congo.
The Bantuist Meinhof made a major distinction between Bantu and a 'Semi-Bantu' group which according to him was originally of the unrelated Sudanic stock.
There is little doubt that the constituent families of Nilo-Saharan—of which only Eastern Sudanic and Central Sudanic show much internal diversity—are valid groups.