A group of languages spoken in parts of South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania.
Used in a Sentence
nilotic
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for nilotic.
Editorial note
In fact, my best friend and double-decker-mate in boarding school was from a Nilotic community known as Luo.
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Quick take
A group of languages spoken in parts of South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of nilotic gathered in one view.
Of or pertaining to the Nilotic languages or the people who speak them.
Of or pertaining to the Nile or the people who live on its banks.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for nilotic.
noun
A group of languages spoken in parts of South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania.
adjective
Of or pertaining to the Nilotic languages or the people who speak them.
adjective
Of or pertaining to the Nile or the people who live on its banks.
Example sentences
In fact, my best friend and double-decker-mate in boarding school was from a Nilotic community known as Luo.
It simply contains a picture of Barack Obama's parents, as proof-enough that his father was Nilotic rather than Arabic.
These distinctions also exist between the Western African branches of Nilo-Saharan (the Nilotic parent group) and the Bantu communities in the region.
I said co-domesticated and I mean it: a substantial number of humans of European and Nilotic descent have a mutation which makes them able to digest raw milk well into adulthood.
As far as human molecular-level evidence goes, we know that there are significant traces of Middle-Eastern farmers in North Africa (including Egypt and the north-east), but we can also tell that Nilotic herders expanded out of Sudan, well into East Africa.
Majority of Kenyans and East-africans are multi-lingual and they will speak on average 3 languages (English, Kiswahili, the mother-tongue and most likely an additional local language.) if they are Bantu, they will also understand 3 or more other languages and same if they are Nilotic or Cushitic.
Proper noun examples
However, the fact that all the greatest long-distance endurance runners are of Kalenjin descent (Nilotic race) tells us next to nothing about any other trait.
Same in Congo with the Bantu, Pygmy and Nilotic.
The individual heritability of IQ is.5 to.8 for example Sub-Saharan diversity is a real thing, eg Bantu, Nilotic, Pygmy and Bushmen are extremely diverse (African Americans are not Pygny or Bushmen so not as diverse) But if you use cluster analysis on human genomes and ask it to divide humanity into 2 clusters, it divides humans into Sub Saharan Africans and everyone else.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use nilotic in a sentence?
In fact, my best friend and double-decker-mate in boarding school was from a Nilotic community known as Luo.
What does nilotic mean?
A group of languages spoken in parts of South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania.
What part of speech is nilotic?
nilotic is commonly used as noun, adjective.