Use of "Sudanic Peoples" As An Ethnological Term
Although the language classification "Sudanic languages" is obsolete, sometimes for convenience the term "Sudanic peoples" is applied to all those Niger–Congo speaking peoples who speak languages other than the Bantu languages.
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