- chari-nile
- cha·ri-nile
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chari-nile
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Chari-Nile — [shä′rē nīl′] adj. designating or of a subfamily of the Nilo Saharan family of languages, including Sudanic * * * … Universalium
Chari-Nile — [shä′rē nīl′] adj. designating or of a subfamily of the Nilo Saharan family of languages, including Sudanic … English World dictionary
Chari-Nile — noun a group of Nilo Saharan language spoken in parts of the Sudan and Zaire and Uganda and Tanzania • Hypernyms: ↑Nilo Saharan, ↑Nilo Saharan language • Hyponyms: ↑Nilotic, ↑Nilotic language * * * ˈshärē|nīl, īəl noun Usage … Useful english dictionary
Chari-Nile languages — Chari Nile is a now obsolete name for a subset of the Nilo Saharan language family. The name was introduced by Joseph Greenberg in his 1955 Studies in African linguistic classification . It derives from the fact that the languages in this… … Wikipedia
Chari-Nile — /ˌtʃari ˈnaɪl/ (say .chahree nuyl) noun a group of east African languages in the Nilo Saharan family …
Chari River — Map showing the Chari River drainage basin. Chari … Wikipedia
Nilo-Saharan languages — Nilo Saharan Geographic distribution: Central and East Africa Linguistic classification: One of the world s primary language families Subdivisions: Eastern Sudanic Central Sudanic ? Kadu Maban … Wikipedia
Nilo-Saharan languages — Group of perhaps 115 African languages spoken by more than 27 million people from Mali to Ethiopia and from southernmost Egypt to Tanzania. The concept of Nilo Saharan as a single stock combining a number of earlier groupings was introduced in… … Universalium
The Languages of Africa — is a 1963 book of essays by Joseph Greenberg, in which he sets forth a genetic classification of African languages that, with some changes, continues to be the most commonly used one today. It is an expanded and extensively revised version of his … Wikipedia
Berta languages — group of languages that form a part of the Nilo Saharan language (Nilo Saharan languages) family. Some 125,000 Berta speakers live in Ethiopia; approximately 22,000 live in The Sudan. Two of the main varieties of Berta are Berta proper… … Universalium
