Southern Nilotic languages

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Nilotic languages branch language family branch

Southern Nilotic languages are a branch of the Nilotic language family spoken primarily in Kenya, Tanzania, and neighboring regions by various pastoralist and agricultural communities.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nilotic languages branch →
language family branch →
arealFeature contact with Bantu languages →
contact with Cushitic languages →
associatedWith Datooga people →
Kalenjin people →
Luo people of Kenya →
Okiek people →
Omotik people →
geographicDistribution East Africa →
Great Rift Valley region →
hasBranch Kalenjin languages →
Omotik–Datooga languages →
Tatoid languages →
hasProtoLanguage Proto-Southern Nilotic →
hasWordOrder SOV →
SVO →
includesLanguage Datooga →
Dholuo →
El Molo →
Kalenjin →
Keiyo →
Kipsigis →
Marakwet →
Nandi →
Okiek →
Omotik →
Pokot →
Sabaot →
Terik →
Tugen →
linguisticFeature complex verbal morphology →
tone →
vowel harmony →
spokenBy agricultural communities →
pastoralist communities →
spokenIn Burundi →
Democratic Republic of the Congo →
Kenya →
Rwanda →
Tanzania →
Uganda →
studiedInDiscipline Nilotic linguistics →
subclassOf Eastern Sudanic languages →
Nilo-Saharan languages →
Nilotic languages →
usedFor agricultural terminology →
oral tradition →
pastoral terminology →
Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Southern Nilotic languages ("Proto-Southern Nilotic") →
hasProtoLanguage
Nilo-Saharan languages →
hasSubfamily
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