Sudanic

American  

[soo-dan-ik] / suˈdæn ɪk /

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.

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Sudanic British  

/ 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

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adjective

1. relating to or belonging to this group of languages

2. of or relating to the Sudan

Etymology

Origin of Sudanic

First recorded in 1920–25; Sudan + -ic

Example Sentences

Islam in particular made great advances in the Sudanic region of West Africa and along the Swahili coast.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

An official of the Mamluk Sultanate and Mansa Musa’s contemporary, al-Umari was in a unique position to describe the great Sudanic king of West Africa and his legendary wealth.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

What explains the origins of Ghana, the earliest Sudanic West African kingdom?

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Europeans had been aware of the region’s goldfields since the fourteenth century, when Sudanic gold had been imported as a raw material to mint European coins.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

One looks with extreme interest at the beautiful pellucid drops of Sudanic gum, knowing that the Arabs bring some of it from the neighbourhood of Timbuctoo.

From Travels in Morocco, Volume 1. by Richardson, James