Nigriticn.adj.

1883 R. N. Cust Sketch Mod. Langs. Afr. I. iv. 54 Krapf..became aware of the existence of two distinct Groups of Languages on the East Coast, about the line of the Equator, and called them Nilo-Hamitic, or Nilotic, and Nigro-Hamitic or Nigritic respectively.

1903 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 2 351 African languages—Semitic, Hamitic, Libyan, Nigritic, Nilotic, Bantu, Hottentot, and Bushman.

1938 W. M. Hailey Afr. Surv. iii. 76 Dr. Westermann..proposes a four-fold division: (a) Nigritic, or Old Sudanic, including in the west the so-called Kwa group [etc.].

1959 G. P. Murdock Africa 14 For the awkward ‘Niger–Congo’ we prefer the archaic name Nigritic, which seems especially fitting since its speakers comprise, and are largely confined to, the more typical representatives of the Negro race.

1962 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 3 271 (heading) Central Sudanic and Eastern Nigritic.

1977 H. G. Mukarovsky (title) A study of Western Nigritic.

1962 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 3 271 The whole area was once Central Sudanic, but has been invaded from the west by Eastern Nigritics.

1969 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 54 334 The Bassarel, Coniagui, and Badjaranke..have been referred to as ‘Paleo-Nigritics’ by Baumann.

1989 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 15 Aug. 3 ‘Nigritics’–a term used by some Caribbean and Latin American blacks whose ancestral backgrounds differ from American blacks, and for whom there is no separate demographic category.

1994 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) (Nexis) 29 May 74 a Major ethnic groups include..Eastern Nigritic 7%.

1889 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 18 213 The two specimens in the tomb of Rameses III are in various degrees Nigritic, with receding foreheads and thick protruding lips.

1907 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 6 333 The Nigritic stock left Arabia to invade Africa.

1963 C. J. McCall in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 420 Hoodoo represents the syncretistic blend of Christian and Nigritic religious traditions.

1982 Man 17 419 The Nigritic Bofi are one of the many ethnic groups of village farmers in N'Delé.

1999 G. Kubik Africa & Blues 132 The Kutin, like their neighbours, the Chamba and the mountain dwellers called Zanganyi, are millet agriculturists within what has been called the Ancient Nigritic peoples.

1896 J. W. E. Bowen Africa & Amer. Negro 22 The four principal tribes...are known as Nubians, but this name is more properly applied to their neighbours on the banks of the Nile, who are of Negro extraction and speak a language of nigritic structure.

1959 G. P. Murdock Africa 48 No longer do the Pygmies roam the forest undisturbed, for about 2,000 years ago their territory was penetrated from the north by..speakers of Eastern Nigritic languages.

1967 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 52 51 The Ibo, a huge southern Nigerian group of the Kwa sub-family of Nigritic speakers.

1975 Jrnl. Black Stud. 6 192 The Yoruba and Fón peoples..who speak languages of the Nigritic group in the Kwa sub-family of Niger-Congo languages.