Talk:Nilotic peoples

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Hamitic / Semitic roots

Keep out the crap about "the semitic roots" nonsense. We don't need to resurrect 19th century Imperialist theories, please, thank you. Peace. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Teth22 (talk • contribs)

I agree, and disagree. Precisely because this keeps coming back it's good to keep something about it in the article, with the modifier "traditional ethnographic literature". Rather than just omitting information that is widespread although it's falsified, it would be advisable to specifically debunk this information. — mark ✎ 20:42, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Unless the author can give sources on this "tradtional ethnographic literature," I say delete the modifier, debunked or not. Kemet 13 March 2006

I'n not sure if I understand what you're saying. Deleting the modifier amounts to saying that members of these groups descended from 'Hamitic' or 'Semitic' roots. That theory has been discredited, as outlined for example in Hamitic. I agree that it needs sources eventually (WP:V), but it makes no sense at all to delete the modifier for the time being. I'll look around for sources, but don't expect me to fix this very soon. Others are invited to help of course. Meanwhile, I will not agree with deleting the modifier; then, the whole sentence has to go (but as I said above, it will keep coming back). — mark ✎ 08:25, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Genetic research indicates that Nilotes may in fact be descendants of a very archaic African population distantly related to Khoisan. Only recently they mixed, to a limited extent, with Arabs and surrounding black Africans (or Neo-Negrids, if you want). Cartouche, 16.September 2006

"The terms Nilotic and Nilote were previously used as racial classifications, based on now widely discarded perceptions." LOL Discarded by Marxists in Western science. Now you can look at the position of Nilotic people in the global context in Tishkoff et al. 2009 - as a group equal to non-African races of Homo sapiens. 89.235.19.212 (talk) 16:56, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

South Sudan

I'm terrible with graphics, but given the large numbers of Nilotic peoples in the now-independent South Sudan, could someone please fix the map? Thanks :) Interlaker (talk) 00:30, 27 October 2011 (UTC)