Nilo-Saharan

Nilo-Saharan
/nuy'loh seuh har"euhn, -hair"-, -hahr"-/, n.
a family of African languages, including the Central and Eastern Sudanic groups as well as Kanuri, Songhai, and other languages, spoken from the Sahara southward to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania.

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