Meaning & use
Nilotic
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Relating to the Nile River, or to the peoples, languages, and cultures of the Nile Valley and surrounding regions.
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Nilotic peoples such as the Dinka and Nuer live primarily in South Sudan.
The exhibit displayed artifacts from ancient Nilotic civilizations.
A note on using this word
Used both geographically, to describe anything relating to the Nile, and ethnolinguistically, to classify a group of related African languages.
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