The Nilotic languages are spoken by an indigenous people in Northeastern Africa.
The Nilotic languages are a group of Eastern Sudanic languages spoken across a wide area between South Sudan and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples , who traditionally practice cattle-herding . Nilotic peoples are peoples indigenous to the Nile Valley who speak Nilotic languages ; this is a large sub-group of the Nilo-Saharan languages spoken in South Sudan , Uganda , Kenya , and northern Tanzania . South Sudan ( [ , saʊθ_suˈdɑːn , _ - ˈdæn ] ) , officially the Republic of South Sudan , is a landlocked country in northeastern Africa that gained its independence from Sudan in 2011 .