Sudanian

English

Etymology

From Sudan +‎ -ian.

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.
   • 1837, James Cowles Prichard, Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind, Vol. 2, p. 116:

     The language of Yarriba has no affinity to either of the Sudanian idioms.

   • 1910, Harry Johnston, George Grenfell and the Congo, volume 2, page 880:

     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.

   • 1915, Alice Werner, The Language-families of Africa, page 36:

     The Sudanian speech-group thus reaches in an irregular band right across Africa, from Cape Verd on the west to the confines of Abyssinia on the east […]

Translations

Pertaining to the climatic region

Noun

Sudanian (plural Sudanians)

1. A Sudanese person.

Anagrams

• Daunians