Specialised African type, native to the swamps and savannahs of the Upper Nile region in South Sudan and adjacent countries. With their black skin they belong to the darkest people on Earth. Their thin bodies are the tallest of all indigenous human groups worldwide who are still alive, their legs longer than in any other known group.

The Nilotic peoples are peoples indigenous to South Sudan and the Nile Valley who speak Nilotic languages.

Ancient type with Proto Nilotid traits, today still found in the border region of Sudan and Ethiopia. Common in Kwama, Uduk, Gumuz, Mao, and related people. More mixed in Berta and other Nilotics.

May 28, 2015 · Here, we provide new insight into the genetic history of populations living in the Sudanese region of East Africa by analysing nine ethnic groups belonging to three African linguistic families:...

Type common to the southern branch of Nilotic people of Lake Albert south to Lake Victoria, in South Sudan, Uganda, and Western Kenya. In some features, less typical than Dinkaids and Shillukids, stature and head shorter, possibly due to a higher degree of (Congolesid) admixture, or alternatively showing a less specialised Nilotid form.

The Nilotic languages are a group of related languages spoken across a wide area between South Sudan and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples. The word Nilotic means of or relating to the Nile River or to the Nile region of Africa. [2] Nilotic peoples, who are the native speakers of the languages, originally migrated from the Gezira area in Sudan.

Aug 27, 2024 · Native inhabitants of the Nile Valley who speak Nilotic languages are known as the Nilotic peoples. They reside in Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo ‘s eastern border region, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan, and Sudan.

Nilotic landscape is any artistic representation of landscapes that emulates or is inspired by the Nile river in Egypt.

Aug 16, 2022 · If meeting an indigenous tribe whilst on safari in Africa is your wish, the Nilotic people are some of the people that have kept their ancient traditions in modern times and worth visiting.

Jan 26, 2023 · Between 3000 and 1000 B.C.E., the proto Nilotes emerged as a distinct linguistic group in East Africa in the Bahr el-Ghazal region of what is now South Sudan. Eventually, they slowly differentiated into various subgroups and migrated into different parts of East Africa.