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	Nilotic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Before Greenberg's reclassification, the term was used to refer to Western Nilotic alone (with the other two being grouped as "Nilo-Hamitic languages".)
		Creider, Chet A. The syntax of the Nilotic languages : themes and variations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nilotic_languages (106 words)

	Nilo-Saharan languages: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Nilo-Saharan languages are a group of African languages (African languages: the term african languages refers to the approximately 1800 languages spoken in africa....
		Taman languages (Taman languages: taman languages are a group of languages that are part of the eastern sudanic subfamily of...
		Berta language (Berta language: the berta language is spoken in sudan and ethiopia, and is generally classified as...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/nilo-saharan_languages (1010 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Nilo-Saharan & Khoisan
		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.
		It is spoken in the Sudan and in Ethiopia.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/nskxlh.htm (676 words)

	Uganda - Families.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Nilotic language speakers probably entered the area from the north beginning about C.E. Thought to be the first cattle-herding people in the area, they also relied on crop cultivation.
		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.
	world.families.com /uganda-2297-2306-ctc (943 words)

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		Nilotic: This is the language family containing the languages of the Nuer, Dinka and Shilluk (all of whom live in the southern portion of the Republic of Sudan), as well as the languages of the Maasai and Luo, who live in Kenya and Tanzania.
		Almost all of the languages of Africa south and east of West Africa are Bantu languages.
		The addition of European languages to the language mix in Africa is one of the lasting heritages of the colonial period, which is usually dated as beginning in 1884 and coming to an end in the 1960's.
	www.louisville.edu /~essega01/Language.htm (1536 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.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~dlpayne/Nilotic/NiloticFamily.htm (580 words)

	Grant Supported Research - Department of Linguistics - University of Oregon
		Nilotic languages are spoken in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia and Congo.
		The Nilotic family is said to be one of the two most-complex sub-families within the larger Nilo-Saharan phylum.
		While some languages of the family have been reasonably well documented, others have received essentially no documentation and attempts to further understand the family are hampered by lack of adequate data.
	logos.uoregon.edu /research/grant_supported.html (1267 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 (1208 words)

	Eritrea - People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Cushitic languages are spoken by the Beja in western Eritrea, the Afar in the southern tip of the country, and the Saho in the eastern parts of the highlands.
		The biggest native languages in Eritrea are the Semitic ones, the closely related Tigrigna and Tigré.
		The Kunama and the Baria are the Nilotic languages of Eritrea, spoken in the lowlands between the Gash and Setit rivers.
	denbe.asmarino.com /asmarino/Eritrea/People.htm (223 words)

	Uganda Ethnic Diversity and Language
		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.
		Introduced by the British in the late nineteenth century, it was the language of the colonial administration.
	www.country-studies.com /uganda/ethnic-diversity-and-language.html (492 words)

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

	LINGUIST List 5.1490: Comparative syntax
		KARAMOJONG belongs to the East branch of the Nilotic branch of East Sudanic.
		As a language, Jie, along with Karamojong and various other languages such as Teso, are part of the Teso-Turkana branch of EAST Nilotic.
		African language nomenclature is full of terms NOT used by the speakers themselves (but often by sarcastic neighbors, so that, for example, while the Dinka evidently see no stigma in their autonym, the Achooli use the term somewhat like English uses the term "the masses", cf.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/5/5-1490.html (1594 words)

	Nilotic: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Nilotic refers to East African tribe (tribe: (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily) s originating in sub-Saharan northeast Africa (Africa: The second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean).
		"The Nilotic" is also the name used of a fictional character or creature in Clive Barker (Clive Barker: clive barker (born october 5, 1952, liverpool, england) is a british author,...
		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.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/nilotic (215 words)

	Uganda - Western Nilotic Language Groups
		Western Nilotic language groups in Uganda include the Acholi, Langi, Alur, and several smaller ethnic groups.
		Most Western Nilotic languages in Uganda are classified as Lwo, closely related to the language of the Luo society in Kenya.
		The two largest ethnic groups, the Acholi and Langi, speak almost identical languages, which vary slightly in pronunciation, suggesting that the two groups divided as recently as the early or mid-nineteenth century.
	countrystudies.us /uganda/25.htm (630 words)

	Nilotes on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		NILOTES [Nilotes], people of E Africa who speak Nilotic languages.
		The Nilotes are noted for their tall stature.
		Some Nilotic peoples, such as the Masai, are dedicated to their traditional life and have resisted intrusions by European culture.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/Nilotes.asp (263 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Dholuo (Luo) belongs to the Western Nilotic sub-branch of the Nilotic branch of the Eastern Sudanic family.
		Languages closely related to it are found in Uganda and the Sudan.
		Following the theoretical tenets of Functional Grammar, the present volume is a study with a two-fold aim: First, it sets out to provide a descriptively adequate account of constituent order in Dholuo; secondly, it investigates the possibility of providing such an account without using transformational rules in the sense of structure-changing operations.
	www.koeppe.de /katalogE/3-89645-130-8.html (101 words)

	creider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Yet for many languages, and for all of the African languages I work with, it is extremely important.
		Although I spent much of my career working within the general approach to language developed by Noam Chomsky at M.I.T., I have gradually become convinced that this research tradition is too encumbered with its historical baggage of rules, levels, transformations, etc., to adapt to recent relevant discoveries in the cognitive sciences.
		A second area of current concentration is on a dictionary of the Nandi Language.
	www.ssc.uwo.ca /anthropology/creider/creider.html (457 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)

	Ethnologue report for Sudan
		Of those, 134 are living languages and 8 are extinct.
		Dialects: They consider themselves to be a Kresh tribe, but their language is not intelligible to the Kresh.
		At Jebel Malkan, near the Berta language, south of the Blue Nile, near the Ethiopian border.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Sudan (4938 words)

	LINGUIST List 5.1420: Comparative method in linguistics
		Obviously related languages) are spoken in Sudan, e.g., Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk, in Uganda, e.g.,) Achooli, Lango and in Kenya/Tanzania, e.g., Luo.
		They wanted to connect) these languages with"Hamitic"(you know people related to the Egyptians) with all the implications of the jaded racial arguments about whether) the Egyptians were fl or not -- or rather NOT fl, or not not).
		But this is a far cry from reconstructing the kind of intricate morphological patterns found in the older Indo-European languages, for example, but absent from many other language families.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/5/5-1420.html (625 words)

	Kenya safari guide - Kenyalogy: Population and culture: Tribes and languages
		The Paranilotic languages in Kenya are divided in three groups: Teso, Maasai and Kalenjin.
		The Nilotic languages, also spoken in Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania, belong to the family of Nilo-Saharian languages.
		Finally, Cushites are mainly shepherds speaking Somali or Galla, languages that belong to the Afro-Asian family of tongues that originated in northern Africa and the Middle East.
	www.kenyalogy.com /eng/info/pobla4.html (209 words)

	Lango - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Their language, Leb Lango or Luo, is mutually intelligible with Acholi, Kumam and some other Luo languages of Uganda and Kenya.
		Lango speak a Western Nilotic (Luo) language like their northern neighbours, but share many cultural characteristics with their Ateker (Eastern Nilotic) neighbours to the east.
		Through prolonged interaction with the Acholi, Lango lost their Eastern Nilotic language (Ateker) and took up a Western Nilotic language (Luo) spoken by their Acholi neighbours.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Lango (425 words)

	Ethnologue: Uganda
		Nyankole, Nyoro, and their dialects are considered by some to be one language (78% to 96% lexical similarity).
		The standardization of the western languages (Nyankore-Chiga and Nyoro-Tooro) is called 'RuNyakitara', and is taught at the University.
		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)

	Ethnologue report for Uganda
		Of those, 43 are living languages and 2 are extinct.
		Formerly a soldier language, which split off from Sudanese Pidgin Arabic about 1900.There are conflicting reports of intelligibility of Sudanese Creole Arabic.
		Nyankore, Nyoro, and their dialects are considered by some to be one language (lexical similarity 78% to 96%).
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Uganda (1389 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Nilotic Languages II: Morphology and Syntax (PGL)
		Aspects of the Morphology-Syntax Interface in Four Nigerian Languages: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Fulfulde, Igbo, Lamang, and Mupun.
		Phonetics and Phonology of the Southern Lwoo Languages
	www.uni-leipzig.de /~afrika/pages/ifa/show.php?aid=85&page=1 (1129 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		1997 The fates of [+ATR] /a/ in Nilotic.
		Kotey and H. Der-Houssikian, eds., Language and Linguistic Problems in Africa: Proceedings of the 7th Conference on African Languages.
		University of Western Ontario: Centre for the Research and Teaching of Canadian Native Languages, (2 vols.) (with R. Cupido, V. Isaak and K. Runge).
	www.ssc.uwo.ca /anthropology/creider/cac_cv.html (811 words)

	Nilotic Family
		For example, someone may understand another language variety at about 75%.
		Eastern Nilotic groups appear to have had extensive interaction with Southern Nilotic groups.
		(The term "Kalenjin" is commonly applied to some of these languages.) Southern Nilotic groups appear to have had considerable contact with some Cushitic (Afro-Asiatic) language groups.
	www.uoregon.edu /~dlpayne/Nilotic/NiloticFamily.htm (580 words)

	Dinka (Agar/ Bor/ Rek/ Padang) Language Page - Handbook of African Language Resources (ASC)(MSU)
		Dinka is a generic name for a group of dialects in the Dinka Group of Western Nilotic languages.
		It is spoken by the Jien (Dinka) along the White Nile in the Sudan.
		Dinka has a Romanized orthography developed from the 1928 Rejaf language conference; some modifications have been suggested from the work of the Institute of Regional Language's Literacy Project.
	www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/Dinka-root.html (214 words)

	The Nilotic Language Research Network - Department of Linguistics - University of Oregon
		The Nilotic Language Research Network is an international group of linguists who are actively studying Nilotic languages.
		Network goals are to increase the quantity and quality of linguistic work on Nilotic languages, and lay the foundation for cross-family searchable databases.
		For more information, please visit the The Nilotic Language Research Network Website.
	logos.uoregon.edu /research/projects/nilotic.html (129 words)

	The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society
		Specifically, it provides information on the on the language clusters of Mali on the basis of mutual intelligibility.
		This publication tackled the topic of the inventory and classification of Gabonese languages in an update perspective, the one dealing with the ethno-socio-anthropology.
		It's a matter of questionning the speakers of different languages about what they think of other languages in terms of intercomprehension.
	www.casas.co.za /notes.htm (975 words)

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