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NILOTIC LANGUAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group
Synonyms:
Nilotic; Nilotic language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Nilotic language" is a kind of...):
Chari-Nile (a group of Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of the Sudan and Zaire and Uganda and Tanzania)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Nilotic language"):
Dinka; Luo; Masai (a Nilotic language)