Nilo-Saharan language family

GPTKB entity

Properties (51)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf language family
gptkbp:hasCitations Nuer dialects
Nubian dialects
Songhay dialects
Daju dialects
Shilluk dialects
Luo_dialects
Kanuri_dialects
gptkbp:hasInfluenceOn Language documentation
Language preservation
Sociolinguistics
Comparative linguistics
African_linguistics
gptkbp:hasSubsidiary gptkb:Kanuri
Luo
Nuer
Shilluk
Daju
Nubian
Songhay
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Nilo-Saharan language family
gptkbp:includes gptkb:Nubian_languages
gptkb:Nuer_language
gptkb:Kanuri_language
Shilluk language
Songhay languages
Daju languages
Luo_language
gptkbp:isCharacterizedBy vowel harmony
agglutinative morphology
complex verb morphology
tonal languages
subject-verb-object word order
noun class systems
gptkbp:isDividedInto gptkb:Central_Sudanic_languages
gptkb:Eastern_Sudanic_languages
Saharan languages
Western_Sudanic_languages
gptkbp:isRelatedTo gptkb:Afro-Asiatic_languages
gptkb:Niger-Congo_languages
gptkbp:isStudiedIn sociology
linguistics
cultural studies
anthropology
ethnolinguistics
gptkbp:notableFeature over 20 million
gptkbp:publishedIn gptkb:Sudan
gptkb:Niger
gptkb:Central_African_Republic
gptkb:Chad
gptkb:South_Sudan