Sudanic

[ soo-dan-ik ]

adjective

1. (especially in former systems of classification) of or relating to a residual category of African languages including most of the non-Bantu and non-Hamitic languages of northern and central Africa: most now reclassified as part of the Niger-Congo subfamily.
2. of or relating to the Sudan or the Sudanese.

Sudanic

/ suːˈdænɪk /

noun

1. a group of languages spoken in scattered areas of the Sudan, most of which are now generally assigned to the Chari-Nile branch of the Nilo-Saharan family

adjective

1. relating to or belonging to this group of languages
2. of or relating to the Sudan

Word History and Origins

Origin of Sudanic¹

First recorded in 1920–25; Sudan + -ic