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Nilotic

noun
1.
A group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group.  Synonym: Nilotic language.






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... was driven out of the more open country. Elsewhere occur mixtures of every kind with intrusive pastoral peoples of the Mediterranean type, the negro blood, however, tending to predominate; and thus we get the Fulahs and similar stocks to the west along the grassland bordering on the desert; the Nilotic folk amongst the swamps of the Upper Nile; and throughout the eastern and southern parkland the vigorous Bantu peoples, who have swept the Bushmen and the kindred Hottentots before them down into the desert country in the extreme south-west. It may be added that Africa ...
— Anthropology • Robert Marett



Words linked to "Nilotic" :   Luo, Chari-Nile, Masai, Dinka, Nile



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