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Nilo-|ˌnaɪləʊ|
Used as combining form of Nile in names of language groups common to inhabitants of the Nile area and of some other specified area. Cf. next.
1932W. L. Graff Lang. 434 Kanuri, of the Nilo-Chadian group. 1938[see Nilo-Hamitic a.]. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Language 401 The Nobades (the supposed ancestors of the modern Nilo-Chadian Nuba). Ibid. 402 The divisions of Sudano-Guinean, according to Delafosse, may now be enumerated:..(2) Nilo-Abyssinian (fifteen languages) with evident traces of classes and class-pronouns and tones, and including Shiluk, Dinka, etc. Ibid., (5) Nilo-Congolese (nineteen languages) with traces of classes, and including Mangbetu, Mbuda, etc. 1966J. H. Greenberg Languages of Africa (ed. 2) 130 To the new grouping which consists of Songhai, Saharan, Maban, Fur and Coman in addition to Chari-Nile, the name Nilo-Saharan is given. 1969Language XLV. 665 Of the 33 languages and language groups surveyed in Hdbk 66, 21 fall into Greenberg's Nilo-Saharan family. |