Conditional constructions in Lopit, an Eastern Nilotic language by Jonathan Moodie

“…Lopit is an Eastern Nilotic language of South Sudan. It has a number of ways of expressing conditionals. …”
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Downstep in Pari the tone system of a western Nilotic language by Torben Andersen

“…Pari, a Western Nilotic language, has a terraced-level tone system with total downstep. …”
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Ideophones in Arusa Maasai: Syntax, morphology, and phonetics by Karani Michael, Andrason Alexander

Subjects: “…nilotic languages…”
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Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak by Torben Andersen

“…Like several other Western Nilotic languages, the Mayak variety of Northern Burun has two sets of vowels distinguished by the feature [ATR], the [-ATR] vowels [I, E, a, i, u] and the [+ATR] vowels [i, e, A, 0, u]. …”
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Dynamics of interacting populations language contact in the Lwoo languages of Bahr el-Ghazal by Anne Storch

“…A number of little-explored Western Nilotic languages of Bahr el-Ghazal have been in contact with Niger-Congo (predominantly Ubangi) languages and have undergone typological as well as specific grammatical changes. …”
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ATR vowel harmony in Ateso by Barasa, David

“…Vowels in Ateso, an Eastern Nilotic language, are subject to Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) harmony. …”
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Dependent clauses with the conjunction kṳ̀ ‘and’ in Dinka by Torben Andersen

“… Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, has a construction in which a clause with dependent syntactic status is combined with a preceding clause of any type by means of the conjunction kṳ̀ ‘and’, which is also used for coordinating both noun phrases and independent clauses. …”
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Morpological stratification in Dinka by Torben Andersen

“…Dinka is a Western Nilotic language with three contrastive degrees of vowel length, two contrastive voice qualities in vowels, and three contrastive tones. …”
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Two Components of Long-Distance Extraction: Successive Cyclicity in Dinka by van Urk, Coppe, Richards, Norvin W.

“…This article presents novel data from the Nilotic language Dinka, in which the syntax of successive-cyclic movement is remarkably transparent. …”
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A uniform syntax for phrasal movement : a case study of Dinka Bor by Urk, Coppe van

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