The Nilotic languages are a group of Eastern Sudanic languages spoken across a wide area between southern Sudan and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples, particularly associated with cattle-herding. They are divided into three subgroups:

• Eastern Nilotic languages
• Southern Nilotic languages
• Western Nilotic languages

Before Greenberg's reclassification, the term was used to refer to Western Nilotic alone (with the other two being grouped as "Nilo-Hamitic languages".)

Bibliography

• Creider, Chet A. (1989) The syntax of the Nilotic languages : themes and variations. Berlin: Reimer. ISBN 3-496-00483-5

External links

• Nilotic, Michael Cysouw
• The Nilotic Language Family, Doris Payne