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Din⋅ka

  [ding-kuh]
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–noun, plural -kas, (especially collectively) -ka.
1. a member of a tall, pastoral, Negroid people of Sudan.
2. the language of the Dinka, a Nilotic language closely related to Shilluk.
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Din·ka   (dĭng'kə)   
n.   pl. Dinka or Din·kas

  1. A member of a traditionally pastoral people of the Nile valley in southern Sudan.

  2. The Nilotic language of this people.


[Probably ultimately from Dinka jieng, person.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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