sudanian

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

Of, from, or pertaining to the climatic region of the Sudan region, which lies just south of the Sahel in Africa.

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noun

"The language of Yarriba has no affinity to either of the Sudanian idioms."
"It is present in the majority of the north-western Bantu languages, and in some of the adjoining forms of Sudanian speech, as well as in the westernmost Nilotic."
"The Sudanian speech-group thus reaches in an irregular band right across Africa, from Cape Verd on the west to the confines of Abyssinia on the east […]"

Etymology tree English Sudan Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Sudanian From Sudan + -ian.

Sudanians (plural)

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