nilo-saharan in English
adjective
1
denoting or belonging to a phylum of languages that includes the Nilotic family together with certain other languages of northern and eastern Africa.
The Nilo-Saharan super language family accounts for about 2 percent of the population, and these languages are spoken near the Sudanese border.
noun
1
the Nilo-Saharan phylum of languages.
His objective is to promote, wherever possible, standardization of orthographies across Nilo-Saharan .
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1. Negative forms in b are widespread in Nilo-Saharan and Afro-Asiatic languages.
2. In a more general sense, the Nilotic peoples include all descendants of the original Nilo-Saharan speakers.
3. Across languages, obviation almost always involves the third person (although second-person obviation is reported for some Nilo-Saharan languages), and the direct–inverse alternation is usually presented as being a way of marking the proximate–obviative distinction between two (or more) third person arguments of a sentence.