Sudanian

1. not comparableOf, from, or pertaining to the climatic region of the Sudan region, which lies just south of the Sahel in Africa.
2. not comparableobsoletePertaining to the Sudanic languages.

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

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

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   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.

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

   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 […]

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

plural Sudanians

1. A Sudanese person.