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sudanic

Su·dan·ic
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [soo-dan-ik]
    • /suˈdæn ɪk/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [soo-dan-ik]
    • /suˈdæn ɪk/

Definitions of sudanic word

  • adjective sudanic (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. 1
  • adjective sudanic of or relating to the Sudan or the Sudanese. 1
  • noun sudanic 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 0
  • adjective sudanic relating to or belonging to this group of languages 0
  • adjective sudanic of or relating to the Sudan 0
  • adjective sudanic of or pertaining to Sudan 0
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Origin of sudanic

First appearance:

before 1920
One of the 12% newest English words
First recorded in 1920-25; Sudan + -ic

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Parts of speech for Sudanic

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Sudanic

sudanic popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 88% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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Related words

  • central sudanic

    a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, southern Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic, and including Mangbetu.

  • eastern sudanic

    a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in eastern and central Africa and including the Nilotic languages.

  • mangbetu

    a member of a people of the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

  • nilo-saharan

    a family of African languages, including the Central and Eastern Sudanic groups as well as Kanuri, Songhai, and other languages, spoken from the Sahara southward to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania.

  • nilotic

    of or relating to the Nile River or the inhabitants of the Nile region.

  • okapi

    an African mammal, Okapia johnstoni, closely related to and resembling the giraffe, but smaller and with a much shorter neck.
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