Claim: The Nilotic languages are spoken by an indigenous people in Northeastern Africa.
Evidence: The Nilotic languages are a group of Eastern Sudanic languages spoken across a wide area between South Sudan and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples , who traditionally practice cattle-herding.
Nilotic peoples are peoples indigenous to the Nile Valley who speak Nilotic languages ; this is a large sub-group of the Nilo-Saharan languages spoken in South Sudan , Uganda , Kenya , and northern Tanzania.
South Sudan -LRB- -LSB- , saʊθ_suˈdɑːn , _ - ˈdæn -RSB- -RRB- , officially the Republic of South Sudan , is a landlocked country in northeastern Africa that gained its independence from Sudan in 2011.