nilotic in English

adjective
1
of or relating to the Nile River or to the Nile region of Africa.
Lastly, the unequal representation of Cushitic or Nilotic artists and their cultures cannot be dismissed.
2
denoting or belonging to a subgroup of Nilo-Saharan languages spoken in Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, and Tanzania. The western group includes Luo and Dinka; the eastern group includes Masai and Turkana.
The largest Nilotic populations in Uganda are the Iteso and Karamojong ethnic groups, who speak Eastern Nilotic languages, and the Acholi, Langi, and Alur, who speak Western Nilotic languages.

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1. The Acholi, Langi and Alur speak Western Nilotic languages.

2. Acholi is a Western Nilotic language.

3. The Acholi Language is a western-Nilotic categorized as Luo just like the Lango and Alur.

4. The Iteso people are an acculturated branch of the Eastern Nilotic peoples.

5. The Acholi language is a Western Nilotic language, classified as Luo and it is mutually intelligible…

6. In a more general sense, the Nilotic peoples include all descendants of the original Nilo-Saharan speakers.

7. The Proto-Aroid vowel system is also more similar to those of the Surmic and Nilotic languages (Yigezu 2006, 2013)

8. The Acholi, a Nilotic Lwo-speaking ethnic group, live predominantly in the central region of northern Uganda, an area collectively referred to as Acholiland.

9. Hutu, also called Bahutu or Wahutu, Bantu-speaking people of Rwanda and Burundi.Numbering about 9,500,000 in the late 20th century, the Hutu comprise the vast majority in both countries but were traditionally subject to the Tutsi (q.v.), warrior-pastoralists of Nilotic stock.

10. Acholi Language The language spoken by the Acholi people is a Western Nilotic language, classified as Luo & shares a largely common vocabulary with other Luo languages. Acholi is also a tonal language that uses vowel harmony (all vowels in a word have to be in the same class).

11. The peoples in the second category (they constitute less than one-tenth per cent of the population) include the Iteso, Langi, Acholi, Alur, Karimojong, Kakwa, Japadhola, Kumam, Sebei, Jonam (Nilotic language groups who comes from the north), the Nilo-Hamitics and the Metu, Madi, Lugbara, Lendu and Okebu (Central Sudanic group) in the northwest and a number of other smaller societies in the eastern part of the country.