Central Sudanic languages
Nilo-Saharan language family of Central Africa / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Central Sudanic is a family of about sixty languages that have been included in the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family. Central Sudanic languages are spoken in the Central African Republic, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Congo (DRC), Nigeria and Cameroon. They include the pygmy languages Efé and Asoa.
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Central Sudanic | |
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Geographic distribution | CAR, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Congo (DRC), Nigeria and Cameroon |
Native speakers | ca. 15 million[1] |
Linguistic classification | Nilo-Saharan?
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Proto-language | Proto-Central Sudanic |
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ISO 639-5 | csu |
Glottolog | cent2225 |
Central Sudanic languages in Africa |
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Blench (2011) suggests that Central Sudanic influenced the development of the noun-class system characteristic of the Atlantic–Congo languages.[citation needed]