WHAT DOES CHARI-NILE MEAN IN ENGLISH?
Definition of Chari-Nile in the English dictionary
The definition of Chari-Nile in the dictionary is a group of languages of E Africa, now generally regarded as a branch of the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in parts of the Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and adjacent countries. Other definition of Chari-Nile is relating to or belonging to this group of languages.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHARI-NILE»
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1
The Languages of the World
Chari-Nile languages trated mainly in Niger and Mali, though there are some in
Algeria, Libya, and Burkina Faso. The Berbers have been known since ancient
times, and their language at one time was probably spoken over most of North ...
2
African Language Structures
... 13.11 Landuma (West Atlantic; Sierra Leone) 10.2 Loma (Mande; Liberia,
Guinea) 1.5, 2.1, 3.1, 4.15, 4.31, 5.7, 5.13, 7.2, 8.3, 15.3 Lwo (Chari-Nile: Nilotic;
Uganda) 2.13, 3.11 Ma'a (Mbugu) (Cushitic; Tanzania) 1.3, 1.10 Maasai (Chari-
Nile: ...
William Everett Welmers, 1974
3
From Hunters to Farmers: The Causes and Consequences of Food ...
Durra follows the Afro-Asian family fairly closely and caudatum seems to be
associated with the Chari-Nile family of languages" (1976: 476). The
correspondence between the Chari-Nile family and caudatum sorghum has been
explored in ...
John Desmond Clark, Steven A. Brandt, 1984
4
African Folklore: An Encyclopedia
Nilo-Saharan is sometimes divided into Songhai, Saharan, Fur, Chari-Nile, and
Coman. Songhai is spoken along much of the upper Niger River in Niger. The
Saharan languages including Kanuri—the major language with nearly 2 million ...
Philip M. Peek, Kwesi Yankah, 2003
5
A History of African Societies to 1870
H NUBIAN |— EAST NILOTIC (including Maasai) — CHARI-NILE — I — NILOTIC
— I I — WEST NILOTIC (including Nuer and Luo) — CENTRAL SUDANIC (
including Lugbara) — SAHARAN — SONGHAI Figure 4 African language
families: ...
Of those who have recently addressed the question of A A subgrouping, only
Diakonoff (1984: 1) maintains Greenberg's original inclusion of Om. in Cu. 24
Greenberg (1963: 117) actually lists k NEGs for the Chari-Nile branch of NS, and
not ...
7
The Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics
Greenberg originally proposed six coordinate subgroups, including a huge Chari
-Nile group, but later work has reorganized his classification and usually rejected
Chari- Nile. While many subgroups are secure, the validity of the whole family is ...
Robert Lawrence Trask, 2000
8
A Guide to the World's Languages: Classification
Shafer (1959), Goodman (1970), and Bender (1976) all disputed Greenberg's
claim that Central Sudanic, East Sudanic, Kunama, and Berta form a higher-level
group (i.e. Chari-Nile). Greenberg accepts their arguments to the extent that he ...
9
On Language: Selected Writings of Joseph H. Greenberg
In the large Chari-Nile family, of which Masai is a member, most languages
conjugate exclusively by prefixes. Barea, however, a member of the Eastern
Sudanic branch of the family which includes Masai, conjugates exclusively by
suffix.
Joseph Harold Greenberg, Keith M. Denning, Suzanne Kemmer, 1990
10
African Languages: An Introduction
In the 1963a book, Kordofanian was co-ordinated with Niger-Congo and a
slightly altered 'Macro-Sudanic' was renamed 'Chari-Nile' following a suggestion
of Welmers. This created a Nilo-Saharan phylum as follows: A. Songhai E. Chari-
Nile ...
Bernd Heine, Derek Nurse, 2000
