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Nilotic meaning
Of or pertaining to the Nile or the people who live on its banks. | Of or pertaining to the Nilotic languages or the people who speak them.
Synonyms of Nilotic
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In addition, languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan language family ( Kunama and Nara ) are spoken as a mother tongue by the Kunama and Nara Nilotic ethnic minorities that live in the north and northwestern part of the country.
Later, Nilotic pastoralists arrived, and continued to immigrate into the area through to the 18th century.
Most of these captives were of Nilotic extraction, and were either purchased by the Tuareg nobles from slave markets in the Western Sudan or taken during raids.
The land is well watered, providing rich cultivation, but the streams and rivers that come down from the watershed divide and erode the land before flowing on to the Nilotic plain flow into in As Sudd.
The slave classes mainly consisted of individuals of Nilotic and Bantu origin who were collectively known by the pejorative Shanqella ("Negro").
This great Nilotic plain is broken by several distinctive features.
This has resulted in a variety of Arabic that is unique to Sudan, reflecting the way in which the country has been influenced by Nilotic, Arab, and western cultures.
While there have been some race-related tensions with the local Bantu and Nilotic majority, Indians now form one of the more prosperous communities in the region.