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	List of Languages
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	African Languages - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Languages of the Berber branch of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken by a substantial portion of the population in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia; by scattered groups elsewhere in North Africa; and along the southern fringes of the Sahara Desert in western Africa.
		Languages spoken farther to the south-east, including Maasai in Kenya, have long been called Nilo-Hamitic; recent investigations, however, appear to prove that these tongues have no direct relationship to languages of the Afro-Asiatic family, but are most closely related to the Nilotic languages.
		North of the Bantu language area, in the north of the Republic of the Congo and adjacent territory, is a branch of the Volta-Congo subfamily, the North branch.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761565449__1/African_Languages.html (2999 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Eastern Nilotic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Eastern Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, themselves belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan; they are believed to have begun to diverge about 3,000 years ago, and have spread southwards from an original home in Equatoria in the far south of Sudan.
		Se-suto is the language of Basutoland; Se-rolon, Se-mangwato, of the Eastern Kalahri; Se-kololo is the court language of Barotseland; Ci-venda and Se-pedi or Peli are the principal dialects of the Transvaal.
		Languages of the Berber branch of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken by a substantial portion of the population in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia; by scattered groups elsewhere in North Africa; and along the southern fringes of the Sahara Desert in western Africa.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Eastern-Nilotic-languages (429 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Southern Nilotic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Southern Nilotic languages are spoken mainly in western Kenya and northern Tanzania (with one of them, Kupsabiny or Sapiny, being spoken on the Ugandan side of Mount Elgon).
		The Eastern Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, themselves belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan; they are believed to have begun to diverge about 3,000 years ago, and have spread southwards from an original home in Equatoria in the...
		Nilotic languages The Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistic service organization which studies lesser-known languages primarily to provide the speakers with native language biblical texts.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Southern-Nilotic-languages (441 words)

	Nilotic Family
		The relationship between Nilo-Saharan and Nilotic might be roughly comparable to the relationship between Indo-European and West Germanic (the latter being comprised of English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch and Afrikaans).
		Determining the precise number of Nilotic languages depends on complex issues that involve degree of mutual linguistic comprehension between speakers of different language varieties, and ethnic self-identity.
		Modernly, Nilotic languages are spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
	www.uoregon.edu /~dlpayne/Nilotic/NiloticFamily.htm (580 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Nilotic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Category: Ethnic groups The Nilotic languages are a group of Eastern Sudanic languages spoken across a wide area between southern Sudan and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples, particularly associated with cattle-herding.
		The Nilotic was a single, very powerful creature in ancient times, but was divided into two aspects, male and female, Jacob Steep and Rosa McGhee, who wander the earth for centuries, unaware of their origins.
		Some Nilotic peoples, such as the Masai, are dedicated to their traditional life and have resisted intrusions by European culture.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nilotic (578 words)

	Culture of Uganda - History and ethnic relations, Food and economy, Social stratification, Political life
		The largest Nilotic populations in Uganda are the Iteso and Karamojong ethnic groups, who speak Eastern Nilotic languages, and the Acholi, Langi, and Alur, who speak Western Nilotic languages.
		Central Sudanic languages, which arrived in Uganda from the north over a period of centuries, are spoken by the Lugbara, the Madi, and a few small groups in the northwestern part of the country.
		There was a wide gulf between Nilotic speakers in the north and Bantu speakers in the south and an economic division between pastoralists in the drier rangelands of the west and north, and agriculturists, in the better-watered highland and lakeside regions.
	www.everyculture.com /To-Z/Uganda.html (0 words)

	Languages of Uganda at AllExperts
		About half of Uganda's languages, all spoken in the southern part, are members of the Bantu language family whereas the other half, in northern Uganda, are of Nilo-Saharan stock.
		Among the Nilo-Saharan languages of the north, a division can be made between the Central Sudanic languages in the extreme north-west and the Nilotic languages in other parts of the north, two branches of Nilo-Saharan that are only very distantly related.
		Lugbara, Aringa, Ma'di and Ndo of northeastern Uganda are languages of the Central Sudanic branch of Nilo-Saharan.
	en.allexperts.com /e/l/la/languages_of_uganda.htm (1160 words)

	East Africa Living Encyclopedia
		Their languages are classified as Eastern Lacustrine and Western Lacustrine Bantu in reference to the populous region surrounding East Africa's Great Lakes (Victoria, Kyoga, Edward, and Albert in Uganda; Kivu and Tanganyika to the south).
		The largest Nilotic populations in present-day Uganda are the Iteso and Karamojong cluster of ethnic groups, speaking Eastern Nilotic languages, and the Acholi, Langi, and Alur, speaking Western Nilotic languages.
		Central Sudanic languages, whose speakers also arrived in Uganda from the north over a period of centuries, are spoken by the Lugbara, Madi, and a few small groups in the northwestern corner of the country.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /NEH/uethnic.htm (0 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia - African languages - AOL Research & Learn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		These languages are spoken in all parts of the continent, from the extreme south up to the territory of the Afroasiatic languages of N Africa.
		All of the Khoisan languages appear to use tones to distinguish meanings, and the Khoikhoi languages and some of the San languages inflect the noun to show case, number, and gender.
		Swahili, a Bantu tongue of the Niger-Kordofanian stock, was written before the European conquest of Africa (see Swahili language), and Vai, a language belonging to the Mande subdivision of Niger-Congo, employs an indigenous script developed in the 19th cent.
	reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/african-languages/20051205140909990013 (1421 words)

	Nilotic LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Nilotic people or Nilotes, in its contamporary usage, refers to some ethnic groups mainly in southern Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and northern Tanzania, who speak Nilotic languages, a large sub-group of Nilo-Saharan languages.
		Etymologically, the terms Nilotic and Nilote (also spelled Nilot) derive from the Nile Valley, specifically the Upper Nile and its tributaries, where most Sudanese Nilotic speaking people live.
		The Nilotic people in Uganda include the Luo group (Acholi, Alur and Jopadhola), the Ateker (Iteso and Karamojong), and the Lango and Kumam (who are linguistically affiliated with the Luo, but are often culturally grouped with the Ateker).
	www.school-explorer.com /info/Nilotic (290 words)

	Africa's Languages
		The presence of a large number of diverse languages in any area is considered a sign that people and cultures have developed over a long period without frequent invasions and migrations.
		The Bantu languages have reached the area from the west by two routes: one via the route north of the Lake Victoria; the other to the south.
		Madagascar is unique in having a dominant family of languages derived from Borneo of the Malayo-Polynesian family, predominant in southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.
	www.angelfire.com /mac/egmatthews/worldinfo/africa/languages.html (442 words)

	Uganda - SOCIETY
		The largest Nilotic populations in Uganda in the 1980s were the Iteso and Karamojong cluster of ethnic groups, who speak Eastern Nilotic languages, and the Acholi, Langi, and Alur, who speak Western Nilotic languages.
		Central Sudanic languages, which also arrived in Uganda from the north over a period of centuries, are spoken by the Lugbara, Madi, and a few small groups in the northwestern corner of the country.
		Most Western Nilotic languages in Uganda are classified as Lwo, closely related to the language of the Luo society in Kenya.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/uganda/SOCIETY.html (16039 words)

	Uganda - MSN Encarta
		Another one-sixth speak Eastern Nilotic languages and live in the northeast, including the Iteso and Karamojong.
		English is the official language of Uganda, though Swahili is more widely spoken and used as a lingua franca (a language used in common by different peoples to facilitate commerce and trade).
		Luganda, the language of the Ganda, is the most frequently used indigenous tongue.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566572_3____61/Uganda.html (672 words)

	: African languages. Afro-Asiatic extends from the Sahel to Southwest Asia. - EXPLORE INDIA - India, Indian news, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The main subfamilies of Afro-Asiatic are the Semitic languages, the Cushitic languages, Berber, and the Chadic languages.
		The Nilotic languages, having expanded substantially with the Nilotic peoples in recent centuries, are a geographically widespread language family and have a large population.
		Language contact (resulting in borrowing) and, with regard to specific idioms and phrases, a similar cultural background have been put forward to account for some of the similarities.
	www.indias.com /wiki-African_languages (2535 words)

	Africa Continents Facts \| 4 Corners Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Nilo-Saharan languages are mainly spoken in Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, and northern Tanzania.
		The Niger-Congo language family covers much of Sub-Saharan Africa and is probably the largest language family in the world in terms of different languages.
		Languages of Europe have also acquired prominence; English, French,Portuguese, and Spanish, are official languages in several countries as a result of colonization.
	www.4cornersclub.com /adventure_trips/africa/continent_facts (0 words)

	Imperial Ethiopia - Ethiopian Languages
		In Ethiopia, this language is Amharic, a Semitic tongue.
		Ethiopia's Semitic languages are written in a unique script of two hundred characters which represent syllables and compound sounds rather than individual letters.
		In multi-ethnic nations such as Ethiopia, the use of an "official" language is sometimes criticised on the basis of its representing only a certain part of the population, with the minority populations reacting against the dominance of a foreign tongue.
	www.imperialethiopia.org /languages.htm (344 words)

	Eastern_Nilotic_languages - SiteTracer.com
		The Eastern Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, themselves belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan ; they are believed to have begun...
		http://The Eastern Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of th...
		Eastern Nilotic languages; Southern Nilotic languages; Western Nilotic languages; Before Greenberg 's reclassification, the term was used to refer to Western Nilotic alone (with the other two being grouped...
	www.sitetracer.com /search/Eastern_Nilotic_languages (113 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Nilo-Saharan & Khoisan
		You have reached the page for Khoisan and Nilo-Saharan languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		Languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family of languages are spoken in Africa.
		The Nilotic sub-branch is divided into Western Nilotic, Eastern Nilotic, and Southern Nilotic sub- branches, with Dinka and Nuer among the languages belonging to the Western Nilotic sub- branch, and Masai among those belonging to the Eastern Nilotic sub-branch.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/nskxlh.htm (676 words)

	The Languages of Tanzania: web links
		ix to 'The languages of Tanzania: a bibliography' by Maho and Sands, Göteborg, 2002.">
		Some 120 languages are spoken within the borders of Tanzania.
		This is the web-appendix to The languages of Tanzania: a bibliography (publ.
	www.african.gu.se /tanzania/weblinks.html (3685 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Maa languages
		The Maa languages are a group of closely related Eastern Nilotic languages (or from a linguistic perspective, dialects, as they appear to be mutually-intelligible) spoken in parts of Kenya and Tanzania by more than a million speakers altogether.
		The Maa languages are related to the Lotuxo languages spoken in Southern Sudan.
		The Akiek of northern Tanzania, speakers of a Southern Nilotic Kalenjin tongue, are under heavy influence from Maasai.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Maa_languages (383 words)

	Uganda
		First, the language gulf between the Nilotic-speaking people of the north and the Bantu-speaking peoples of the south was as wide as that between speakers of Slavic and of Romance languages in Europe.
		The Hima rulers lost their Nilotic language and became Bantu speakers, but they preserved an ideology of superiority in political and social life and attempted to monopolize high status and wealth.
		For example, Obote's strength lay among his Langi kin in eastern Uganda; George Magezi represented the local interests of his Banyoro compatriots; Grace S.K. Ibingira's strength was in the Ankole kingdom; and Felix Onama was the northern leader of the largely neglected West Nile District in the northwest corner of Uganda.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/uganda/all.html (18805 words)

	Ethnologue: Uganda
		Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic, Nilotic, Western, Luo, Southern, Luo-Acholi, Alur-Acholi, Alur.
		Karamoja District of eastern Uganda on Mt. Moroto on Kenya border.
		The sign language used in the classroom and that used by adults outside is the same.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Ugan.html (2477 words)

	Nilotic — (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) is an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources.
		The LINGUIST List is dedicated to providing information on language and language analysis, and to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world.
		Its purpose is to create and distribute a free international encyclopedia in as many languages as possible.
	www.rosettaproject.org /archive/Nilotic (186 words)

	Language families, groups, subgroups of languages.
		Languages spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad: Biu-Mandara, Masa, Hausa, Bole, Tangale, Angas, Yivom, Fyer, Ron, Bade, Duwai, Boghom, Guruntum, Zaar
		Languages of the Andaman Islands in the gulf of Bengala
		Language spoken in the Hunza valley, in Pakistan.
	www.planetservices.it /english/language-family-groups.htm (715 words)

	The Individualist: Nilo-Saharan languages
		The Nilo-Saharan languages are a group of African languages spoken mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including Nubia.
		Some linguists, including Roger Blench, consider the Kadu languages (also called Kadugli languages or Tumtum) to be Nilo-Saharan, while others follow Greenberg in classing them as Kordofanian languages, or Ehret in considering them a small isolated family.
		The extinct Meroitic language of ancient Kush has sometimes been suggested as a probable member of Nilo-Saharan; however, too little is known of the language to classify it with any confidence.
	www.dadamo.com /wiki/wiki.pl/Nilo-Saharan_languages (465 words)

	Ethnologue report for Sudan
		Southern Sudan, eastern Equatoria Province, Lopit Hills, northeast of Torit.
		Southern Sudan, Torit District, eastern Equatoria Province, east and southeast of the Luluba and the Lokoya.
		Eastern Toposa and Jiye are linguistically closer to Turkana; Western Toposa to Karamojong.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=SD (0 words)

	Uganda the country and the people - Bantu tradition - text in English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		(Nilotic language groups who comes from the north), the Nilo-Hamitics and the Jie, Madi, Lugbara and Lendu (Central Sudanic group) in the north and a number of other smaller societies in the eastern part of the country.
		The language architecture is close to the Baganda and Bakonjo of western Uganda while their cultural traits are close to the Hermitic groups of northwestern Ethiopia.
		The largest Nilotic populations in present-day Uganda are the Iteso in Karamojong cluster of ethnic groups, speaking Eastern Nilotic languages.
	www.face-music.ch /inform/poeple_uganda.html (13804 words)

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