Variant of SOUDAN. So Sudanese adj. belonging to the Sudan; sb. an inhabitant or the inhabitants of the Sudan; Sudani (also Sudany) a. and sb. in the same sense; Sudanian a. [f. mod.L. Sudania, the Sudan], Sudanese.
1884. Keane, Ethnol. Egyptian Sudan, 17. Subjoined are tabulated schemes of all the Eastern *Sudanese and contiguous ethnical groups.
1897. Encycl. Brit., XXII. 279/1. The Sudanese Negro peoples.
1905. Sayce, in Contemp. Rev., Aug., 267. The Egyptian has never been fond of military service, whereas, we all now know, the Sudanese is essentially a fighting animal.
1896. Daily News, 20 May, 5/1. He is a *Sudani, and was one of Gordon’s soldiers.
1906. Petrie, Relig. Anc. Egypt, ix. 63. The Sudany dancer.
1842. Prichard, Nat. His. Man, 305. The black *Súdanian nations.
1908. Sir H. Johnston, G. Grenfell & the Congo, II. xxiii. 587. This type of ornament is likewise less common than in Eastern or Sudanian Africa.
