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Southern Nilotic languages

African Language Families

The Southern Nilotic languages are spoken mainly in western Kenya and northern Tanzania. They form a division of the larger Nilotic language family, along with the Western Nilotic languages and the Eastern Nilotic languages.

Facts
Region
Western Kenya, eastern Uganda, northern Tanzania 1
Proto-Language Status
Proto-Kalenjin, ancestor of the larger of Southern Nilotic's two branches, was reconstructed by Franz Rottland in 1979; no separate reconstruction of the full Southern Nilotic ancestor is documented in the source. 1
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Southern Nilotic Languages
Wikipedia
  • Infobox, region field
    western Kenya, eastern Uganda, northern Tanzania
  • Reconstruction section
    Proto-Kalenjin has been reconstructed by Franz Rottland (1979).
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