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Nilotic Languages

a group of East African languages which, according to the classification of the American scholar J. Greenberg, belong to the Chari-Nile branch of the Nilo-Saharan macrofamily of languages.

The Nilotic languages are divided into two groups. The first group, the northwestern Nilotic languages (southern Sudan, northern Uganda, and the neighboring regions of Zaire, Kenya, and Ethiopia), includes the Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk, and Southern Luo (Acholi, Lango, Adola, Kumam, Alur, and Kenya Luo) languages. The second group, the southeastern Nilotic languages (western Kenya, northern Tanzania, eastern Uganda, and the southernmost part of the Sudan), includes the Bari, Lotuko (Lotuho), Teso, Karamojong, Turkana, Topotha, Masai, and Kalenjin (Pakot, or Suk, and Nandi-Kipsigi).

All Nilotic languages are tonal and have complex vowel systems with long and short vowels. The northwestern Nilotic languages distinguish vowels according to the presence or absence of secondary glottal articulation. Although they possess elements characteristic of analytic languages and have shown a tendency toward agglutination (of auxiliary words) in the formation of many grammatical categories (for example, person and number of the verb), the northwestern Nilotic languages retain the essential characteristics of inflectional languages: complex internal inflection of the vowels and, sometimes, consonants of the stem in word formation and in the formation of case and number in nouns and the categories of transitivity and intransitivity in verbs.

The southeastern Nilotic languages have a predominantly synthetic and partly inflectional morphology (including the category of gender). They are also called Para-Nilotic languages, and they were formerly referred to as the Nilo-Hamitic languages, based on the inaccurate assumption that they were related to the Hamito-Semitic languages.

REFERENCE

Tucker, A. N., and M. A. Bryan. Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa. London, 1966.

A. B. DOLGOPOL’SKII

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No references found	There is virtually no trust or sense of common purpose between the Nilotic peoples of the northeast (including the Acholi) and the Bantu-speaking peoples of the southwest. Northern Uganda: the human face of atrocity by Klassen, Dave; Gamble, Rick / Inroads: A Journal of Opinion For example, when CRANID data is taken as a whole for the expanse of the Nile Valley, Egyptian, Nubian and African (Ethiopic) groups form a cluster together at some distance from others, and are closer to each other than to cranial data from the Near East, Turkey/Anatolia or Greece,[25] indicating confirmation with Egyptologist Frank Yurco's observation of the common heritage and continuity of the Nilotic peoples. Methodological Problems in Identifying Ancient Nile Valley Populations by Gnarban Cirpinski / Anthropology, archeology, folklore community 20) Several works on the ethnography of the Dinka and neighbouring Nilotic peoples became anthropological classics: E. Human rights: southern voices Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash ... by Twining, William / Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal	nilas Nile Nile Grass Nile perch Nile River Nile, Battle of the Niles Niles, Hezekiah Niles, John Jacob Niles, Thomas Nilfheim Nilgai Nilgiri Hills Nilin, Pavel Nilin, Pavel Filippovich Nilionidae nilmanifold Nilo-Saharan Nilo-Saharan Languages Nilopolis Nilópolis Nilot Nilotes Nilotic Nilotic Languages Nilotic people Nilova Pustyn Nilova, Agrafena Nilova, Agrafena Vasilevna nilpotent nilradical Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjöld Nils Eden Nils Edén Nils Gustaf Dalen Nilsen, Rudolf Nilson, Lars Fredrik Nilsson Nilsson, Birgit Nilsson, Christine nim oil Nima Yushij Niman Niman Festival Nimbarka nimbostratus Nimbus Nimda Nimègue Nimeiri, Gaafar Mohamed el-	Nilmanifold NILMT NILO Nilo-Saharan Nilo-Saharan Nilo-Saharan language Nilo-Saharan language Nilo-Saharan languages Nilo-Saharan languages Nilo-Sahelian languages NILOCM Nilometer Nilopolis Nilopolis Nilópolis Nilópolis NILOS Niloscope Nilot Nilot Nilote Nilote Nilotes Nilotes Nilotic Nilotic Nilotic language Nilotic language Nilotic languages Nilotic languages Nilotic people Nilotic peoples Nilotinib Nilova Pustyn Nilova, Agrafena Nilova, Agrafena Vasilevna NILP Nilpotence Nilpotence nilpotency nilpotency nilpotent nilpotent Nilpotent element Nilpotent element Nilpotent Lie algebra Nilpotent Lie group NILPRP NILPS NILPTV NILQ NILR Nilradical NILRC NILRR Nils Nils Nils Nils Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjöld

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There is virtually no trust or sense of common purpose between the Nilotic peoples of the northeast (including the Acholi) and the Bantu-speaking peoples of the southwest.

Northern Uganda: the human face of atrocity by Klassen, Dave; Gamble, Rick / Inroads: A Journal of Opinion

For example, when CRANID data is taken as a whole for the expanse of the Nile Valley, Egyptian, Nubian and African (Ethiopic) groups form a cluster together at some distance from others, and are closer to each other than to cranial data from the Near East, Turkey/Anatolia or Greece,[25] indicating confirmation with Egyptologist Frank Yurco's observation of the common heritage and continuity of the Nilotic peoples.

Methodological Problems in Identifying Ancient Nile Valley Populations by Gnarban Cirpinski / Anthropology, archeology, folklore community

20) Several works on the ethnography of the Dinka and neighbouring Nilotic peoples became anthropological classics: E.

Human rights: southern voices Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash ... by Twining, William / Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal

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