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4 unusual facts about Nilo-Saharan languages


Religion in Eritrea

Additionally, many of the Nilo-Saharan-speaking Nara ethnic minorities also adhere to Islam, as do some of the Kunama Nilotes.

Singulative number

Singulative markers are found throughout the Nilo-Saharan languages, and a singulative–collective–plurative pattern is considered a marker of that family.

Solluba

Those peoples may have engaged in trade across the Red Sea with speakers of Cushitic or Nilo-Saharan.

Yebbo Communication Network

According to 2006 client request data, the Afro-Asiatic Amharic, Tigrinya, Somali and Oromo are designated as Yebbo’s Core languages, in addition to the Niger-Congo Swahili language, and the Nilo-Saharan Dinka and Nuer languages.


Berta people

They speak a Nilo-Saharan language that is not related to those of their Nilo-Saharan neighbors (Gumuz, Uduk).

Berti language

Berti speakers migrated into the region with other Nilo-Saharan speakers, such as the Masalit and Daju, who were agriculturalists practicing varying degrees of animal husbandry.

Dilling

Dilling people, an ethnic group of Sudan, and their language Dilling, part of the Nubian branch of the Nilo-Saharan family

Guido Cervo

Also set in the Roman Empire age are Il centurione di Augusto, Il segno di Attila, Le mura di Adrianopoli and L'aquila sul Nilo.

Lumpers and splitters

For this reason, many language families have had lumper–splitter controversies, including Altaic, Pama–Nyungan, Nilo-Saharan, and most of the larger families of the Americas.

Minni Minnawi

Minnawi belongs to the Zaghawa ethnic group, the Ila Digen (or Awlad Digayn) clan of the non-Arab, Saharan Zaghawa people.

Nilo

Nilo Syrtis, a region just north of Syrtis Major Planum on Mars

Nilo Rukundpur, a village in Patepur Tehsil, Vaishali, Bihar, India

Nilo Menéndez

Nilo Menéndez Barnet (Matanzas, 26 September 1902 - Burbank, California, 15 September 1987) was a Cuban-born naturalized American songwriter.

Saharan languages

The Saharan languages are a small family of languages spoken across parts of the eastern Sahara, extending from northwestern Darfur to southern Libya, north and central Chad, eastern Niger and northeastern Nigeria.


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