Nilo-Saharan, Nilo-Saharan language

a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania

• Chari-Nile — a group of Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of the Sudan and Zaire and Uganda and Tanzania
• Saharan — a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad
• Songhai — a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Songhai people in Mali and Niger

• natural language, tongue — a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language