NILO-SAHARAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nilo-Saharan mean? 

• NILO-SAHARAN (noun)
  The noun NILO-SAHARAN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: NILO-SAHARAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NILO-SAHARAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Nilo-Saharan; Nilo-Saharan language

Hypernyms ("Nilo-Saharan" is a kind of...):

natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Nilo-Saharan"):

Chari-Nile (a group of Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of the Sudan and Zaire and Uganda and Tanzania)

Saharan (a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad)

Songhai (a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Songhai in Mali and Niger)