Nilo-Saharan languages

language family

The Nilo-Saharan languages are a family of African languages. They are spoken by around 50 million people, who mainly live in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers. The languages go through 17 countries in the northern half of Africa:

Nilo-Saharan
Geographic
distribution:
Central and East Africa
Linguistic classification:One of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions:
Ethnologue code:nilo-saharan
ISO 639-2 and 639-5:ssa

Map showing the distribution of Nilo-Saharan languages

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