Ethnic.2Flinguistic divisions Nilotic peoples

areas nilotic languages spoken.

linguistically, nilotic people divided 3 sub-groups:

eastern nilotic - spoken nilotic populations in southwestern ethiopia, eastern south sudan, northeastern uganda, western kenya , northern tanzania. includes languages turkana , maasai.

bari
teso–lotuko–maa


southern nilotic - spoken nilotic populations in western kenya, northern tanzania , eastern uganda. includes kalenjin , datog.

kalenjin
omotik–datooga


western nilotic - spoken nilotic populations in south sudan, sudan, northeastern congo (drc), northern uganda, southwestern kenya, northern tanzania , southwestern ethiopia. includes dinka , luo.

dinka–nuer
luo



ethnic groups


maasai men in ngorongoro, tanzania.

nilotic people constitute bulk of population of south sudan. largest of sudanese nilotic peoples dinka, have many twenty-five ethnic subdivisions. next largest group nuer, followed shilluk.

the nilotic people in uganda include luo (acholi, alur , adhola), ateker (teso , karamojong), lango , kumam.

in east africa, nilotes subdivided 3 general groups:

the plain nilotes: speak maa languages , include maasai, samburu , turkana
the river lake nilotes: joluo (kenyan luo), part of larger luo group
the highland nilotes: subdivided 2 groups, kalenjin , datog

kalenjin: elgeyo, kipsigis, marakwet, nandi, pokot, sabaot, terik , tugen
datog: represented barabaig , small clusters of other datog speakers






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