| 释义 |
Sudanic, a. and n.|suːˈdænɪk|
[f. Sudan + -ic.]
A. adj. = Sudanese a.; spec. of or pertaining to the Sudan or an extensive group of African languages spoken there and elsewhere in central, northern, and eastern Africa.
B. n. (One of) the Sudanic group of languages.
1912D. Westermann Shilluk People i. 32 Hamitic languages..differ from the Sudanic languages chiefly in the grammatical gender. Ibid., Numerous Shilluk-words, which most probably are Sudanic, are found in languages generally counted as Hamitic. 1913N. W. Thomas Anthrop. Rep. Ibo-Speaking Peoples of Nigeria i. 141 The languages of West Africa, commonly called Sudanic, and spoken by the true negro, have been classified into four main groups—Eastern Sudanic, Central Sudanic, Middle and Western Sudanic. 1931C. K. Meek Sudanese Kingdom iv. 184 Mlle. Homburge has recently written a paper attempting to prove a close connection between Ancient Egyptian, Fulani, Sudanic, and Bantu. 1936Discovery June 171/1 The Nilotes of the Nile Valley, speaking Negro (Sudanic) languages and extending from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan some 200 miles south of Khartum into Uganda. 1956E. E. Evans-Pritchard Nuer Relig. iii. 104 They think easily in terms of Spirit but not in terms of medicines, the idea of which as it obtains among their Sudanic neighbours they seem scarcely able to grasp. 1956A. W. Southall Alur Society ii. 24 The Bendi are also Sudanic speakers. 1957Ld. Hailey African Survey 1956 iii. 84 Negro (including Sudanic, Bantu, and Nilotic), and Hamito-Semitic. 1972J. Biggs-Davison Africa—Hope Deferred iii. 24 The Sudanic economy was mainly rural and pastoral. 1977Sci. Amer. Apr. 110/3 Ehret suggests that the names applied to cattle and sheep by many modern Bantu-speakers were probably derived from the non-Bantu languages known collectively as Central Sudanic. 1980Cambr. Encycl. Archaeol. 342/1 The formative processes of the Early Iron Age complex took place in the country to the north-west, in the ‘sudanic’ belt of open grassland savanna on the northern fringes of the equatorial forest. |