And have you ever heard of a Nilo-Saharan language called Nobiin?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mommy, where do tones come from?] Reference

Note 98: Ehret, A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan, 623. back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Note 16: The estimate for Afrasan (Afroasiatic) is 371; Nilo-Saharan, 196; and Khoisan, 35.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

His name comes from Luo, a Nilo-Saharan language spoken, among other places, in Western Kenya, where his father was born.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terrance Heath: Sotomayor and the Vulcan Standard, Pt. 2] Reference

American, Andean; DINKA: Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic, Nilotic, Dinka-Nuer; as he says, "That's an areal feature if I've ever seen one.".    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: NO FRICATIVES IN AUSTRALIA.] Reference

Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Languages: English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

UgandaEnglish (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Languages] Reference

Languages: English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uganda] Reference

Of the estimated 2,035 languages spoken on the continent of Africa, a recent study estimated the Niger-Congo family comprises 1,436 languages, with a conservative estimate of 360 million speakers. 16 Like other language families indigenous to the continent — Afrasan (Afroasiatic), Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan — the Niger-Congo language family long, long ago comprised communities of speakers who spoke a common ancestral language, proto-Niger-Congo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Ehret, A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan, 269. back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

See Ehret, Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan, 443. back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Note 76: Christopher Ehret, A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan (Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2001), 271.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

The Suri, along with the Mursi and Meen all speak languages that belong to the Surmic language family under the larger Nilo-Saharan language phylum.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to SOUTHERN AFRICA: Competing for Limpopo water] Reference

The Luo speak a Nilo-Saharan language and are thought of as a people of Sudanese origin, but genetically they have a heavy mixture of Bantu speakers 'genes, Dr. Tishkoff said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kasama] Reference

For instance, speakers of Nilo-Saharan languages once lived across central and southern Sahara, and may have once hunted aquatic creatures with barbed bone points and fish hooks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

Needless to add that Sudan became the colonial tomb of various Kushitic and Nilo-Saharan nations whereby the worst victim, as in anyplace, are the Arabic speaking Kushites of Central Sudan, who have been systematically targeted by the English colonials and were made to believe that they are Arabs whereas never did a single Arab set foot in Sudan - which is the land and the state that the Ancient Greeks and Romans called Ethiopia.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Chronicle] Reference

Songhay and Nilo-Saharan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jabal al-Lughat] Reference

Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

In today's Abyssinia, following the 19th – 20th century colonial expansion, an excruciating Semitic Amhara and Tigray Abyssinian tyranny has been imposed over the outright majority of the country, the masses of the subjugated nations that are all either Kushitic (Oromo, Ogadeni, Sidama, Afar, Shekacho, Kaffa, Kambaata, Gedeo and Hadiya) or Nilo-Saharan (Anuak, Berta, Nuer, Shinasha).    From Wordnik.com.  [Open Letter to H. E. Mr. Gurjit Singh, Ambassador of India in Abyssinia (Fake 'Ethiopia')] Reference