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Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Southwestern Egypt , Ethiopia , Sudan , South Sudan , northeastern Congo (DRC) , northern/eastern Uganda , western/southern Kenya , and northern Tanzania
- Ethnicity
- Nilotic peoples
- Native speakers
- 31 million
- Linguistic classification
- Nilo-Saharan ? Eastern Sudanic ? Southern Eastern ? Nilotic
- Proto language
- Proto-Nilotic
- Subdivisions
- Eastern Southern Western
- Glottolog
- nilo1247
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Encyclopedic overview
The Nilotic languages are languages spoken across wide areas between Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nilotic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.