chari-nile

1. 1.

   a group of Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of the Sudan and Zaire and Uganda and Tanzania

   BroaderNilo-Saharan

   NarrowerNilotic

Questions about chari-nile

What does chari-nile mean?

chari-nile means "a group of Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of the Sudan and Zaire and Uganda and Tanzania".

How many syllables are in chari-nile?

chari-nile has 4 syllables and divides as cha-ri--ni-le under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is chari-nile a common word?

chari-nile is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.