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Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Southwestern Egypt , Ethiopia , Sudan , South Sudan , northeastern Congo (DRC) , northern/eastern Uganda , western/southern Kenya , and northern Tanzania
- Ethnicity
- Nilotic peoples
- Native speakers
- 31 million
- Linguistic classification
- Nilo-Saharan ? Eastern Sudanic ? Southern Eastern ? Nilotic
- Proto language
- Proto-Nilotic
- Subdivisions
- Eastern Southern Western
- Glottolog
- nilo1247
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- data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#Nilotic
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The Nilotic languages are languages spoken across wide areas between Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples.
Etymology