Eastern Sudanic languages | DisamKB

Eastern Sudanic languages

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branch of Nilo-Saharan language family

Eastern Sudanic languages are a major branch of the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family, spoken primarily in northeastern and eastern Africa and including languages such as Nubian and Nilotic.

Aliases (5)

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	branch of Nilo-Saharan → language family →
classificationStatus	controversial →
continent	Africa →
hasLinguisticFeature	agglutinative morphology → complex verbal morphology → tone languages →
hasNotableLanguage	Anywa language → Berta → Daju Mongo → Dinka language → Dongolawi → Kenuzi-Dongola → Kunama → Luo languages → Maasai language → Murle language → Nobiin → Nuer language → Shilluk language → Tama language →
hasProtoLanguage	Proto-Eastern Sudanic →
hasSubgroup	Northern Eastern Sudanic → Southern Eastern Sudanic →
includes	Berta language → Daju languages → Kunama language → Nara language → Nilotic languages → Nubian languages → Surmic languages → Taman languages →
partOf	proposed Nilo-Saharan language family →
spokenIn	Central African Republic → Chad → Democratic Republic of the Congo → Eastern Africa → Egypt → Eritrea → Ethiopia → Kenya → Northeastern Africa → South Sudan → Sudan → Uganda →
subclassOf	Nilo-Saharan languages →
writingSystemUsed	Arabic script → Coptic script → Geʽez script → Latin script →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Nilo-Saharan languages → Nilo-Saharan phylum →	hasSubfamily
Eastern Sudanic languages ("Northern Eastern Sudanic") → Eastern Sudanic languages ("Southern Eastern Sudanic") →	hasSubgroup
Eastern Sudanic languages ("Proto-Eastern Sudanic") →	hasProtoLanguage
Sudanese Arabic ("Nubian languages") →	influencedBy
Fur language ("Eastern Sudanic") →	languageFamily
Southern Nilotic languages →	subclassOf