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Nilo-Saharan

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Summary

Nilo-Saharan is a language family[1]. Nilo-Saharan ranks in the top 5% of language family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,765 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: Wikimedia article covering multiple topics[3]
  • Subclass of: human language[4]
  • Commons category: Nilo-Saharan languages[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Nilo-Saharan languages[6]
  • Main subject: Central Sudanic[7], Eastern Sudanic[8]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SSA[9], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-182318508[10]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[11]

Why It Matters

Nilo-Saharan has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] Nilo-Saharan is known by 68 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main subject → Central Sudanic, Eastern Sudanic
    Subclass of → human language
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 24832, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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