Chari-Nile — [shä′rē nīl′] adj. designating or of a subfamily of the Nilo Saharan family of languages, including Sudanic * * * … Universalium
Chari-Nile — [shä′rē nīl′] adj. designating or of a subfamily of the Nilo Saharan family of languages, including Sudanic … English World dictionary
Chari-Nile — noun a group of Nilo Saharan language spoken in parts of the Sudan and Zaire and Uganda and Tanzania • Hypernyms: ↑Nilo Saharan, ↑Nilo Saharan language • Hyponyms: ↑Nilotic, ↑Nilotic language * * * ˈshärē|nīl, īəl noun Usage … Useful english dictionary
Chari-Nile — /ˌtʃari ˈnaɪl/ (say .chahree nuyl) noun a group of east African languages in the Nilo Saharan family …
Chari River — Map showing the Chari River drainage basin. Chari … Wikipedia
Nilo-Saharan languages — Nilo Saharan Geographic distribution: Central and East Africa Linguistic classification: One of the world s primary language families Subdivisions: Eastern Sudanic Central Sudanic ? Kadu Maban … Wikipedia
Nilo-Saharan languages — Group of perhaps 115 African languages spoken by more than 27 million people from Mali to Ethiopia and from southernmost Egypt to Tanzania. The concept of Nilo Saharan as a single stock combining a number of earlier groupings was introduced in… … Universalium
The Languages of Africa — is a 1963 book of essays by Joseph Greenberg, in which he sets forth a genetic classification of African languages that, with some changes, continues to be the most commonly used one today. It is an expanded and extensively revised version of his … Wikipedia
Berta languages — group of languages that form a part of the Nilo Saharan language (Nilo Saharan languages) family. Some 125,000 Berta speakers live in Ethiopia; approximately 22,000 live in The Sudan. Two of the main varieties of Berta are Berta proper… … Universalium
Kunama languages — group of Nilo Saharan languages spoken by some 110,000 people of Eritrea and Ethiopia. Whereas some varieties of Kunama constitute mutually intelligible dialects, others, such as Bitama and Ilit, are distinct Kunama languages. Kunama was… … Universalium