nilo-saharan language

English Thesaurus

1. a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	natural language, tongue,
definition	:	a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	chari-nile,
definition	:	a group of Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of the Sudan and Zaire and Uganda and Tanzania (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	saharan,
definition	:	a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	songhai,
definition	:	a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Songhai in Mali and Niger (noun.communication)