Nilotic languages
The Nilotic languages are a family of languages assigned to the East Sudan branch within the Nilo-Saharan languages .
The speakers of Nilotic languages, about 7.5 million people, are called Nilotes and live in Kenya (3.2 million), Uganda (1.8 million), South Sudan (1.8 million), Tanzania (300,000) , DR Congo (100,000), Ethiopia and Eritrea .
The Nilotic languages are among those languages within the branch ostsudanischen that the pronoun of the first person singular with an element n form, eg. B. nanʊ ( Maa ).
They can be broken down as follows (after Franz Rottland):
- West Nilotic:
- East Nilotic:
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South Nilotic :
- Kalendschin languages
- Omotics
- Datooga
literature
- Oswin Köhler: History of the study of the Nilotic languages . Reimer, Berlin 1955.
- Franz Rottland: The South Nilotic Languages. Description, comparison and reconstruction . Reimer, Berlin 1982.
