Nilotic

American  

[nahy-lot-ik] / naɪˈlɒt ɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Nile River or the inhabitants of the Nile region.

2. of or relating to the Nilotic group of languages.

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noun

1. a group of languages belonging to the Eastern Sudanic branch of Nilo-Saharan, and including Dinka, Luo, Masai, and Nandi.

Nilotic British  

/ naɪˈlɒtɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Nile

2. of, relating to, or belonging to a tall Negroid pastoral people inhabiting South Sudan, parts of Kenya and Uganda, and neighbouring countries

3. relating to or belonging to the group of languages spoken by the Nilotic peoples

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noun

1. a group of languages of E Africa, including Luo, Dinka, and Masai, now generally regarded as belonging to the Chari-Nile branch of the Nilo-Saharan family

Etymology

Origin of Nilotic

1645–55; < Latin Nīlōticus of the Nile < Greek Neilōtikós. See Nile, -otic

Example Sentences

But this Nilotic tribe, apparently, had some media savvy.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2018

I was kissed by crocodiles; and laid, confounded with all unutterable slimy things, amongst reeds and Nilotic mud.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Mee, Arthur

It was entitled "The Sources of the Nile; being a General Survey of the Basin of that River and of its Head-Stream, with the History of the Nilotic Discovery, by Charles Beke, D.D."

From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules

Their dialect is closely allied to those of the Alur, Lango and ja-Luo tribes, all four being practically pure Nilotic.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

These civilizations of the old world, among which the Mesopotamian and the Nilotic were the earliest, were built on no unsound foundations.

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander