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Nilotic

small language family of East Africa
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Nilotic

Summary

Nilotic is a language family[1]. Nilotic draws 200 Wikipedia views per month (language_family category, ranking #119 of 1,012).[2]

Key Facts

  • Nilotic's instance of is recorded as language family[3].
  • Nilotic is a type of Eastern Sudanic[4].
  • Nilotic's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Nilotic languages[5].
  • Nilotic's exact match is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#Nilotic[6].
  • Nilotic's linguistic typology is recorded as subject–verb–object[7].

Why It Matters

Nilotic draws 200 Wikipedia views per month (language_family category, ranking #119 of 1,012).[2] Nilotic has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] Nilotic is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Linguistic typology → subject–verb–object
    Instance of → language family
    Instance of → —
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