Southern Nilotic languages

E49679
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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All labels observed (7)

Label Occurrences
Southern Nilotic languages canonical 12
Southern Nilotic 9
Proto-Southern Nilotic 1

Statements (49)

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 system (wider geological context) ⓘ
surface form: Great Rift Valley region
hasBranch Kalenjin languages ⓘ
Omotik–Datooga languages ⓘ
Tatoid languages ⓘ
hasProtoLanguage Southern Nilotic languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: 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 (26)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nilo-Saharan languages → hasSubfamily → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
Southern Nilotic languages → hasProtoLanguage → Southern Nilotic languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Proto-Southern Nilotic
Nilotic languages → hasSubgroup → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
Omotik–Datooga languages → subclassOf → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
Omotik–Datooga languages → linguisticBranchOf → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Nilotic
Kalenjin → family → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Nilotic
Nandi → partOfLanguageFamily → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
Kipsigis → languageFamily → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Nilotic
Tugen → family → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Nilotic
Marakwet → languageFamily → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Nilotic
Marakwet → belongsTo → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Nilotic subgroup
Pokot → subfamily → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
Sabaot → languageFamily → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Nilotic
Terik → subfamily → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
Omotik → subfamily → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Nilotic
Okiek → subfamilyOf → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
Kalenjin people → languageFamily → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
Okiek people → ethnolinguisticGroup → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Nilotic peoples
Okiek people → languageFamily → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
Kalenjin languages → linguisticBranchOf → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Nilotic branch
Datooga people → languageFamily → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
Datooga people → ethnolinguisticGroup → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Nilotes
Nilotic peoples → hasLanguageBranch → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
Datooga → subfamily → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Nilotic
Eastern Nilotic languages → relatedTo → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
Keiyo → languageFamily → Southern Nilotic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Nilotic