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CHARI-NILE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of the Sudan and Zaire and Uganda and Tanzania
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Chari-Nile" is a kind of...):
Nilo-Saharan; Nilo-Saharan language (a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Chari-Nile"):
Nilotic; Nilotic language (a group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group)