The Nilotic languages are a group of related languages spoken across a wide area between South Sudan and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples .
3-580: Omotik (Sawas) is a moribund Nilotic language of Kenya. It is spoken by the hunter-gatherer Omotik people of the Great Rift Valley among the Maasai ; most of the Omotik population has shifted to the Maasai language . This Nilo-Saharan languages –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nilotic languages The word Nilotic means of or relating to
6-809: The Nile River or to the Nile region of Africa. Nilotic peoples , who are the native speakers of the languages, originally migrated from the Gezira area in Sudan. Nilotic language speakers live in parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Ethiopia , Kenya , Sudan , South Sudan , Tanzania and Uganda . According to linguist Joseph Greenberg , the language family is divided up into three subgroups: Before Greenberg 's reclassification, Nilotic
9-700: Was used to refer to Western Nilotic alone, with the other two being grouped as related " Nilo-Hamitic " languages. Blench (2012) treats the Burun languages as a fourth subgroup of Nilotic. In previous classifications, the languages were included within the Luo languages . Starostin (2015) treats the Mabaan-Burun languages as "West Nilotic" but outside the Luo level. Over 200 Proto-Nilotic lexical roots have been reconstructed by Dimmendaal (1988). Dimmendaal reconstructs
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