Associations to the word «Nilotic»

Wiktionary

NILOTIC, adjective. Of or pertaining to the Nile or the people who live on its banks.
NILOTIC, adjective. Of or pertaining to the Nilotic languages or the people who speak them.
NILOTIC, noun. A group of languages spoken in parts of Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania.

Dictionary definition

NILOTIC, noun. A group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group.
NILOTIC, adjective. Of or relating to the Nile River or the people living near it.
NILOTIC, adjective. Of or relating to or constituting the Nilotic group of languages; "Nilotic syntax".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope