5 1404 comparative method linguistics leo karamojong one number languages collectively called jie nilotic languages obviously related languages spoken sudan e g dinka nuer shilluk uganda e g achooli lango kenya tanzania e g luo saw word list languages e g numbers one ten would little difficulty reconstructingthe parent language comes another branch nilotic includes maasai kalenjin think could also see genetic relationship nilotic languages recognised genetically related long greenberg bigshots pre greenberg esp german superstar carl meinhof went wanted connect languages hamitic know people related egyptians implications jaded racial arguments whether egyptians black rather black one small correction one comment benji wald interesting letter pre greenber classifications nilotic languages karimojong actually member branch nilotic includes maasai kalenjin branch termed nilo hamitic paranilotic tucker bryan divided two groups oswin koehler 1955 part tripartite division nilotic language western dinka nuer shilluk achooli lango dholuo eastern maasai karimojong turkana etc southern kalenjin datooga greenberg saw correctness koehler classification adopted accepted today also worth noting scholars tucker bryan although accept connection hamitic feel sufficient evidence connect southern eastern group old nilo hamitic paranilotic tucker bryan believed languages nilotic would ultimately shown nilotic question really whether tree evidence paranilotic subgrouping syntactic vso word order morphological type particularly fairly elaborate verbal derivational morphology eastern southern languages vs reduced morphology western ones unusual features tonal case found southern languages eastern ones except bari none proved sufficient sustain paranilotic grouping chet creider creider csd uwo ca