Langenesis

Eastern Sudanic family

Proto-Nilotic

c. 3,000 BCE – 1,500 BCE Reconstructed

Proto-Nilotic (c. 3,000 BCE – 1,500 BCE) is a reconstructed Eastern Sudanic language. It has 6 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Eastern Sudanic → Proto-Nilotic.

See Proto-Nilotic on the interactive map

Ancestor of the Western, Eastern and Southern Nilotic languages of South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, probably spoken in the southern Sudan region.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Eastern Sudanicc. 6,000 BCE – 4,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Niloticc. 3,000 BCE – 1,500 BCE

Descendants 3

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Eastern Sudanic.

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