They include: The languages were first described by Edward E. Evans-Pritchard in 1932.
They are a dialect chain, close enough for some mutual intelligibility between neighboring varieties.
Most classifications include the family within the Western Nilotic branch, these include Starostin (2015),[1][2] Hammarström et al. (2016)[3] and Bender (2000).
Blench (2012) classifies the family as a primary branch of Nilotic.
This Nilo-Saharan languages–related article is a stub.