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

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

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

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

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

You worked over in the Teda country, before joining my team, and speak the Sudanic dialects.

From Border, Breed Nor Birth by Reynolds, Mack