| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Ni·lot·ic |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  n -l t  k |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Of or relating to the Nile or the Nile Valley. 2. Of or relating to the peoples who speak Nilotic languages. | | NOUN: | A large group of Nilo-Saharan languages, spoken in southern Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and northern Tanzania and including Masai. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin Nl ticus, from Nltis, from Greek Neiltis, from Neilos, Nile.
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