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ninemsn Encarta - African Languages The Saharan branch of this family includes languages spoken in north-eastern Nigeria, through the Republic of Chad to the east, and into the oasis settlements of Libya to the north. The westernmost branch of this family is Songhai, an important language group with no close relatives, spoken along much of the upper Niger River in Mali and Niger. Along the River Nile near the southern border of Egypt and in scattered areas to the south-west are the Nubian languages, Chari-Nile languages spoken by about 1 million people. au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565449/African_Languages.html   (1277 words)

ninemsn Encarta - African Languages 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. The Saharan branch of this family includes languages spoken in north-eastern Nigeria, through the Republic of Chad to the east, and into the oasis settlements of Libya to the north. 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. au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565449/African_Languages.html   (1277 words)

Chad - Nilo-Saharan Languages Classified in the Chari-Nile subfamily of the Nilo-Saharan languages, Sara-Bongo-Baguirmi languages are scattered from Lake Chad to the White Nile in southwestern Sudan. Nomads in the Sahara, semisedentary and sedentary peoples in the Sahel, and sedentary populations in the soudanian zone all may speak Nilo-Saharan languages. Teda and Daza are related languages in the Central Saharan group. countrystudies.us /chad/19.htm   (1955 words)

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Nilo-Saharan & Khoisan updated 8-12-2002 Teso (Nilo-Saharan) belongs to the Eastern Nilotic sub-branch of the Nilotic sub-branch of the Eastern Sudanic sub-branch of the Chari-Nile branch of the Nilo- Saharan family of languages. updated 7-27-2004 Dinka (Nilo-Saharan) belongs to the Western Nilotic sub-branch of the Nilotic sub-branch of the Eastern Sudanic sub-branch of the Chari-Nile branch of the Nilo- Saharan family of languages. updated 7-27-2004 Nuer (Nilo-Saharan) belongs to the Western Nilotic sub-branch of the Nilotic sub-branch of the Eastern Sudanic sub-branch of the Chari-Nile branch of the Nilo- Saharan family of languages. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/nskxlh.htm   (676 words)

Series: NISA - Nilo Saharan Nilo Saharan is a problematical term for a hypothetical language family, stretching from the central Sahara southeastward to Tanzania. Robert Nicolaï / Franz Rottland (eds.): Actes du Cinquième Colloque de Linguistique Nilo - Saharienne — Proceedings of the Fifth Nilo - Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, Nice, 24—29 August 1992 Proceedings of the 7th Nilo - Saharan Linguistics Conference Vienna, September 1998 www.koeppe.de /html/e_nisa.htm   (176 words)

Nilo-Saharan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. 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. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nilo-Saharan_language   (427 words)

Bahasa isolat - Wikipedia A Palaeosiberian language spoken in the lower Amur River basin and on the Sakhalin Islands; Ainu is also spoken on Sakhalin. Some linguists have claimed similarities with various languages of the Caucasus, especially because of its ergative case system, but the resemblances seem superficial. Extinct language of ancient kingdom of Meroe (Kush) id.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bahasa_isolat   (312 words)

Language Classification The Saharan branch, primarily Kanuri and Teda, is spoken by more than 2.5 million people who live from northeastern Nigeria north through Niger and Chad to the Libyan border. Maban, Fur, and Koman are three small branches; each comprises one or only a few languages. www.ntz.info /gen/n00329.html   (1462 words)

Comptes rendus de séminaires et colloques JAKOBI, Angelika (Mainz, Germany): Reconsidering verb classes I of the Saharan languages. WEDDERBURN, Agnes (Norfolk, UK): Sahil and Saharan II: proposed correspondence between titles and names of seasons and stars in ancient Sahil and Sahara. GENSLER, Orin (MPI Leipzig, Germany): Adpositional relative clauses and focus fronting in Songhay and Berber: 'Quirky' syntax and contact influence. www.uni-bayreuth.de /afrikanistik/mega-tchad/Bulletin/bulletin2001/comptes_rendus/nilosaharan.html   (234 words)

Tama language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Tama language is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in western Sudan and eastern Chad. It is a member of the Taman language group of the Western branch of Nilo-Saharan. "Tama" is also an alternate name for the Nama language of southern Africa. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tama_language   (68 words)

Ethiopian Languages - Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic and Nilo-Saharan The Nilo-Saharan languages are largely spoken in the western part of the country along the border with Sudan (mainly in Gambella and Benshangul regions). The Cushitic languages are mostly spoken in central, southern and eastern Ethiopia (mainly in Afar, Oromia and Somali regions). The Omotic languages are predominantly spoken between the Lakes of southern Rift Valley and the Omo River. www.ethiopiantreasures.toucansurf.com /pages/language.htm   (319 words)

Africa: UNESCO-CI A major problem concerning the safeguarding of linguistic diversity in Africa is the lack of documentation on languages and language speakers, and national linguistic policies that neglect the importance of African languages for development. Ethnologue: Languages of the World (Grimes 2000) identifies 37 African languages that are on the verge of extinction (compared with 161 in the Americas). An assessment of language endangerment in Africa is difficult to establish because the criteria applied to measure endangerment differ. portal.unesco.org /ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=8048&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html   (930 words)

Chad - Nilo-Saharan Languages Classified in the Chari-Nile subfamily of the Nilo-Saharan languages, Sara-Bongo-Baguirmi languages are scattered from Lake Chad to the White Nile in southwestern Sudan. These languages are mutually comprehensible, and the peoples who use them are thought to be descendants of the core ethnic groups of the precolonial sultanate of Yao (a state founded by the Bulala, who ruled a vast region extending as far west as Kanem in the fifteenth century). Boua languages are distributed along the middle Chari River in Moyen-Chari Prefecture and in central Guéra Prefecture. countrystudies.us /chad/19.htm   (1955 words)

Web resources for Nilosaharan languages The language family as such is poorly substantiated, and may or may not contain several members that will eventually end up in the unclassified category, unless they can be made out as links tying together Nilosaharan and Niger-Congo languages. Nilo-Saharan languages according to the Ethnologue, web edition. Language processes, theory and description of language change, and building on the past: lessons from Songhay (PDF) by Robert Nicolai, 2005. goto.glocalnet.net /maho/webresources/nilosaharan.html   (1098 words)

Embassy of Ethiopia, Washington, DC The Omotic group of languages are spoken in the Southwest and have been given that name in recent years because they are spoken in the general area of the Omo River. Some of the written languages use the Ge'ez alphabet, the language of the of the ancient Axumite kingdom. The Hametic languages are found mainly in the East, West, and South. www.ethiopianembassy.org /population.shtml   (1058 words)

Verbs (from Nilo-Saharan languages) --  Encyclopædia Britannica The Nilo-Saharan languages are presumed to be descended from a common ancestral language and, therefore, to be genetically related. These languages were formerly classified as part of the Kordofanian group within the Niger-Congo language family, but they are now widely believed to form a subgroup within the Nilo-Saharan language family. Saharan languages are spoken mainly around Lake Chad—which is located at the conjunction of Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger—but also in Libya and The Sudan. www.britannica.com /eb/article-225831?tocId=225831   (824 words)

Rer Bare language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia According to the Ethnologue, "it is uncertain if they spoke a different language earlier"; if so, it is extinct. They are said to have their own language, bearing the given name [Rerebere]. Later Taye Reya informed me that Sudanese immigrants are found along the and as well, and that they are referred to by the Somali as rer bare (rer means sub-tribe in Somali.) They are also known as adona, and they speak Somali as well as their own language... www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Rer_Bare_language   (244 words)

Suzanne Kemmer's Homepage LIPP Symposium on Language and Linguistics, University of Munich. The 7th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference (CSDL 7) was held at the University of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, October 8-10, 2004. Language, Culture and Mind, edited by Michel Achard and Suzanne Kemmer, was published in October 2004 by CSLI Publications, Stanford. www.ruf.rice.edu /~kemmer   (1016 words)

mahistory language Malagasy is spoken on the island of Madagasgar. The approximate modern locations of the four original language families, across the continent of Africa, are indicated by color in Figure 1. At this level, the sub-divisions are referred to as dialects, because while Maa speakers themselves are aware of, and react to, the differences as marking speakers from different houses (very large clan groupings) or areas, the speech varieties are mutually intelligible. darkwing.uoregon.edu /~dlpayne/maasai/mahist.htm   (634 words)

Nilo-Saharan languages - Wikipedia The Nilo-Saharan languages form one phylum of African Languages. In particular they are spoken in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers. nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nilo-Saharan_languages   (67 words)

Language families and languages Language families can be subdivided into smaller units, conventionally referred to as "branches" (because the history of a language family is often represented as a "tree" diagram). Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates. Language families and languages East Asiaeast and southeast Asia and the Pacific/ www.infothis.com /find/Language_families_and_languages   (1066 words)

Uganda ETHNIC DIVERSITY AND LANGUAGE - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System Nilo-Saharan languages, spoken across the north, are further classified as Eastern Nilotic (formerly NiloHamitic), Western Nilotic, Central Sudanic. 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. www.photius.com /countries/uganda/society/uganda_society_ethnic_diversity_and~2477.html   (576 words)

Nilo-Saharan : Language Learners Directory Survey of the sociolinguistic situation of Nilo-Saharan languages spoken in the Republic of Chad. General survey, with maps, of the Nilotic family, one of the members of the Nilo-Saharan phylum. Introduction to the pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary of the Zama language. www.fpcplv.org /Nilo-Saharan   (202 words)

nilo The subjects of the project are six Nilo-Saharan languages spoken in the Sudan: Dinka, Mabaan, Päri, Moru, Madi and Lulubo. The purpose of the project is the preparation of a description of each of the languages on the basis of data collected during a total of 32 months work in the field in the years 1981-1993. Each description is to provide a summary of the phonology, morphology and syntax of each language and include examples of texts and a vocabulary. www.kommunikation.aau.dk /forskning/emneruk/nilo.htm   (112 words)

ScienceDaily -- Browse Topics: Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Nilo-Saharan The Nilotic Language Family - General survey, with maps, of the Nilotic family, one of the members of the Nilo-Saharan phylum. Nilo-Saharan Languages - Survey of the sociolinguistic situation of Nilo-Saharan languages spoken in the Republic of Chad. Language Family Trees - Nilo-Saharan - The Ethnologue family tree for the phylum, with links for more information on each of the approx. www.sciencedaily.com /directory/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Nilo-Saharan   (530 words)

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Nilo-Saharan & Khoisan Languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family of languages are spoken in Africa. 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. The Nilo-Saharan family has the following branches: Chari-Nile, Saharan, Maban, Forian, Songhai, and Djerma. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/nskxlh.htm   (676 words)

A Survey Report for the Bantu Languages The conventional answer says that a language tends to be the standard variety, be written, have more speakers, have some form of offical status, have prestige, and not be intelligible to speakers of other “languages”. That is, assuming that most or all of the members of a language family derive from a common ancestor, a historical classification will represent this, and the various splittings and branchings that occurred since that ancestor. They, the majority, see (1) the northwestern languages (those of Zones A, B, C, and parts of D and H) as being clearly distinct from the rest; and (2) thereafter, a split in the rest between western (Zones H, K, R, sometimes L and parts of M) and eastern languages. www.sil.org /silesr/2002/016/SILESR2002-016.htm   (1621 words)

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