Explore Nilotic through 8 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like river. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
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
Using Nilotic
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: chari-nile, river, nilotic language.
- In the example corpus, nilotic often appears in combinations such as: of nilotic, nilotic plain.
Context around Nilotic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Nilotic
- In this selection, "nilotic" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nara, great, plain, ethnic and pastoralists stand out and add context to how "nilotic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and nara nilotic ethnic minorities and bantu and nilotic majority indians. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "nilotic" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with nilotic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This great Nilotic plain is broken by several distinctive features. (10 words)
Later, Nilotic pastoralists arrived, and continued to immigrate into the area through to the 18th century. (16 words)
The slave classes mainly consisted of individuals of Nilotic and Bantu origin who were collectively known by the pejorative Shanqella ("Negro"). (21 words)
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. (38 words)
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. (36 words)
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. (29 words)
Example sentences (8)
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.
Common combinations with nilotic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of nilotic 2×
- nilotic plain 2×