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Sudanian

Sudanian adjective: of, from, or pertaining to the climatic region of the Sudan region, which lies just south of the Sahel in Africa.

Adjective

Sudanian (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to the climatic region of the Sudan region, which lies just south of the Sahel in Africa.
  2. (obsolete) Pertaining to the Sudanic languages.
    • The language of Yarriba has no affinity to either of the Sudanian idioms.1837, James Cowles Prichard, Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind, Vol. 2, p. 116
    • It is present in the majority of the north-western Bantu languages, and in some of the adjoining forms of Sudanian speech, as well as in the westernmost Nilotic.1910, Harry Johnston, George Grenfell and the Congo, volume 2, page 880

Noun

Sudanian (plural Sudanians)

  1. A Sudanese person.

Forms of Sudanian

pluralSudanians

Origin of Sudanian

From Sudan + -ian.

Questions about Sudanian

What does Sudanian mean?
Sudanian means of, from, or pertaining to the climatic region of the Sudan region, which lies just south of the Sahel in Africa.
What part of speech is Sudanian?
Sudanian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Sudanian in the dictionary

  1. Sudanese Arabic
  2. Sudaneseness
  3. sudangrass
  4. sudangrasses
  5. Sudani
  6. Sudanian
  7. Sudanians
  8. Sudanic
  9. Sudanis
  10. Sudanism
  11. Sudanist

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