Langenesis

Eastern Sudanic family

Proto-Eastern Sudanic

c. 6,000 BCE – 4,000 BCE Reconstructed

Proto-Eastern Sudanic (c. 6,000 BCE – 4,000 BCE) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Eastern Sudanic language family, with 10 descendant languages and stages on the map.

See Proto-Eastern Sudanic on the interactive map

Ancestor of the Eastern Sudanic languages (Nilotic, Nubian and others). Modelled as its own family because the proposed Nilo-Saharan macrofamily (Greenberg 1963) is doubted by many linguists; Eastern Sudanic itself is better supported but still debated, and its dating is speculative.

Descendants 2

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