Sudanic
ɪk adjective
1.
(especially in former systems of classification) of or pertaining to a residual category of African languages including most of the non-Bantu and non-Hamitic languages of northern and central Africa: most now reclassified as part of the Niger-Congo subfamily.
2.
of or pertaining to the Sudan or the Sudanese.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a group of languages spoken in scattered areas of the Sudan, most of which are now generally assigned to the Chari-Nile branch of the Nilo-Saharan family |
| —adj | |
| 2. | relating to or belonging to this group of languages |
| 3. | of or relating to the Sudan |
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Sudanic
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