Southern Eastern Sudanic languages

Southern Eastern Sudanic
(undemonstrated)
Geographic
distribution
Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
Subdivisions
Language codes
GlottologNone

The Southern Eastern Sudanic, Eastern n Sudanic, En Sudanic languages form one of two primary divisions of the Eastern Sudanic languages in the classification of Bender (2000). It is rejected as an established group in Starostin (2015).

The Southern Eastern Sudanic languages are characterized by having an /n/ in the pronoun "I/me", as opposed to the Northern Eastern Sudanic languages, which have a /k/. The best known Southern Eastern Sudanic language group, as well as the largest, is Nilotic, which includes such languages as Maasai.