单词	Nilo-Saharan
释义	Nilo-Saharan /ˌnʌɪləʊsəˈhɑːrən / adjective Denoting or belonging to a phylum of languages that includes the Nilotic family together with certain other languages of northern and eastern Africa.The Nilo-Saharan super language family accounts for about 2 percent of the population, and these languages are spoken near the Sudanese border.... There are a few small linguistic minorities, of which the largest is the Nubians, who speak two Nubian languages (Kenuz and Mahas) related to the Nilo-Saharan languages of the Sudan. A number of Nilo-Saharan languages became endangered in the 20th century because their speakers adopted other, more prestigious and more widely used languages such as Arabic and Swahili. noun [mass noun] The Nilo-Saharan phylum of languages.His objective is to promote, wherever possible, standardization of orthographies across Nilo-Saharan.... There are more than 100 languages spoken in Chad, virtually all belonging to two great languages families: Nilo-Saharan and Afro-Asiatic. As seen in the hyphenated name (compare map at right), Nilo-Saharan is primarily a family of the African interior, including the greater Nile basin and its tributaries as well as the central Sahara desert.
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