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Southern Nilotic
Geographic
distribution
western Kenya, eastern Uganda, northern Tanzania
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
  • Eastern Sudanic
    • Southern Eastern
      • Nilotic
        • Southern Nilotic
Subdivisions
  • Kalenjin
  • Omotik–Datooga
Glottologsout2830

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). They form a division of the larger Nilotic language family, along with the Western Nilotic languages and the Eastern Nilotic languages.

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Southern Nilotic languages

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the larger Nilotic language family, along with the Western Nilotic languages and the Eastern Nilotic languages. The Southern Nilotic languages are generally...

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Nilotic languages

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The Nilotic languages are a group of related languages spoken across a wide area between South Sudan and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples. The word Nilotic...

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Western Nilotic languages

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Western Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, along with the Eastern Nilotic languages and Southern Nilotic languages;...

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Eastern Nilotic languages

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Proto-Eastern Nilotic. Eastern Nilotic Bari languages Teso–Lotuko–Maa: Teso–Turkana (or Ateker; incl. Karimojong) Lotuko–Maa: Lotuko languages Lango language Lopit...

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Eastern Sudanic languages

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even a Surmic–Nilotic relationship. There are several different classifications of East Sudanic languages. Lionel Bender assigns the languages into two branches...

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Nilotic peoples

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The Nilotic peoples are people indigenous to the Nile Valley who speak Nilotic languages. They inhabit South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, the...

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Paranilotic languages

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group of languages proposed by Carl Meinhof. Karl Lepsius had established the Nilotic languages as a family, with Western, Eastern, and Southern branches...

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Kalenjin languages

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The Kalenjin languages are a family of a dozen Southern Nilotic languages spoken in Kenya, eastern Uganda and northern Tanzania. The term Kalenjin comes...

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Cushitic languages

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to Lake Victoria than are found today. Also, historically, the Southern Nilotic languages have undergone extensive contact with a "missing" branch of East...

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Kupsabiny language

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Kalenjin language a Southern Nilotic language of eastern Uganda. Kupsabiny and a dozen other languages form the Southern Nilotic branch of the Nilotic family...

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Kalenjin people

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Kalenjin Language; while in combination with Datooga languages of Tanzania, this cluster is called Southern Nilotic languages. The Kalenjin language, along...

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Burun languages

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The Burun languages are a branch of the Nilotic languages. They include: North Burun (Maiak, Kurmuk, Burun proper) South Burun (Mabaan, Ulu, Jumjum) The...

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Languages of Uganda

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with over 70 generally estimated languages spoken. 43 of its living languages fall into four main families—Bantu, Nilotic, Central Sudanic and Kuliak. Of...

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Datooga language

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Datoga, Taturu, Mang'ati, Tatoga or Tatog) is a Nilotic language or dialect cluster of the Southern Nilotic group. It is spoken by the Datooga people of...

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Luo languages

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form one of the two branches of the Western Nilotic family, the other being the Dinka–Nuer. The Southern Luo varieties are mutually intelligible, and...

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Nuer language

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The Nuer language (Thok Naath) ("people's language") is a Nilotic language of the Western Nilotic group. It is spoken by the Nuer people of South Sudan...

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Keiyo language

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Kipsigis. These languages and dialects form, along with Datooga and Omotik, the Southern Nilotic languages sub-group of the Nilotic languages. The tables...

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Ogiek language

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is a Southern Nilotic language of the Kalenjin family spoken or once spoken by the Ogiek peoples, scattered groups of hunter-gatherers in Southern Kenya...

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Datooga people

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Nilotic languages. That is to say south-east of present-day Khartoum. It is thought that beginning in the second millennium B.C., particular Nilotic speaking...

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Naandi language

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the Datooga language and the Omotik language, form the Southern Nilotic languages sub-group of the Nilotic languages. The tables below present the vowels...

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Aroid languages

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proposed that Aroid languages might be a part of Nilotic. Citing lexical similarities with Surmic and other non-Nilotic Nilo-Saharan languages, Yigezu (2013)...

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Maa languages

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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)...

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Southern Eastern Sudanic languages

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a /k/. The best known Southern Eastern Sudanic language group, as well as the largest, is Nilotic, which includes such languages as Maasai. Bender (1996)...

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Maasai language

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Maa (English: /ˈmɑːsaɪ/; autonym: ɔl Maa) is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people, numbering...

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Omotik language

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Omotik (Sawas) is a moribund Nilotic language of Kenya. It is spoken by the hunter-gatherer Omotik people of the Great Rift Valley among the Maasai; most...

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History of the Kalenjin people

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around the fifth and sixth centuries BC, the speakers of the Southern Nilotic languages split into two major divisions: the proto-Kalenjin and the proto-Datooga...

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Dinka language

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Dinka (natively Thuɔŋjäŋ, Thoŋ ë Jieng or simply Jieng) is a Nilotic dialect cluster spoken by the Dinka people, a major ethnic group of South Sudan....

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Maasai people

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Maasai speak the Maa language (ɔl Maa), a member of the Nilotic language family that is related to the Dinka, Kalenjin and Nuer languages. Except for some...

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