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- Niger–Congo is a hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. It unites the Mande languages, the Atlantic–Congo languages...64 KB (7,284 words) - 04:35, 16 July 2024
- Proto-Niger–Congo is the hypothetical reconstructed proto-language of the proposed Niger–Congo language family. Unlike Nilo-Saharan, the Niger–Congo language...19 KB (1,360 words) - 02:36, 9 July 2024
- noun class systems and form the core of the Niger–Congo family hypothesis. They comprise all of Niger–Congo apart from Mande, Dogon, Ijoid, Siamou, Kru...7 KB (411 words) - 13:06, 3 August 2024
- The Volta–Niger family of languages, also known as West Benue–Congo or East Kwa, is one of the branches of the Niger–Congo language family, with perhaps...23 KB (730 words) - 11:09, 3 February 2024
- Volta–Congo is a major branch of the Atlantic–Congo family. It includes all the Niger-Congo languages and subfamilies except the families of the erstwhile...5 KB (457 words) - 09:11, 23 November 2023
- of Sub-Saharan Africa. This makes Benue–Congo one of the largest subdivisions of the Niger–Congo language family, both in number of languages, of which...15 KB (799 words) - 23:18, 26 May 2024
- Ijoid languages (category Niger–Congo languages)hypothetical Niger–Congo family and are noted for their subject–object–verb basic word order, which is otherwise an unusual feature in Niger–Congo, shared...6 KB (425 words) - 19:25, 3 December 2023
- Mande languages (category Niger–Congo languages)similarities with the Atlantic–Congo language family, so together they have been proposed as parts of a larger Niger–Congo language family since the 1950s. However...30 KB (1,653 words) - 04:38, 11 July 2024
- Kordofanian languages (category Niger–Congo languages)branches of the hypothetical Niger–Congo family, whereas Kadu is now widely seen as a branch of the proposed Nilo-Saharan family. In 1963, Joseph Greenberg...21 KB (1,150 words) - 01:02, 31 May 2024
- West Atlantic languages (redirect from Niger-Volta languages)North Atlantic languages) of West Africa are a major subgroup of the Niger–Congo languages. The Atlantic languages are spoken along the Atlantic coast...29 KB (1,320 words) - 02:32, 27 December 2023
- Talodi–Heiban languages (category Families rejected by Glottolog)Talodi–Heiban languages are a proposed branch of the hypothetical Niger–Congo family, spoken in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The Talodi and Heiban languages...8 KB (496 words) - 00:58, 31 May 2024
- Ekajuk (also spelled Akajo and Akajuk), is an Ekoid language (of the Niger–Congo family) spoken in the Cross River State and some surrounding regions of Nigeria...1 KB (65 words) - 00:29, 20 December 2021
- Dogon languages (category Language families)closely related language family that is spoken by the Dogon people of Mali and may belong to the proposed Niger–Congo family. There are about 600,000...19 KB (1,268 words) - 02:10, 23 June 2024
- languages (sometimes spelt Manden) are a dialect continuum within the Niger-Congo family spoken in West Africa. Varieties of Manding are generally considered...6 KB (574 words) - 01:59, 13 June 2024
- Katloid languages (category Niger–Congo language stubs)language family in the Nuba Hills of Sudan. Part of an erstwhile Kordofanian proposal, they are of uncertain position within the hypothetical Niger–Congo family...2 KB (145 words) - 07:42, 11 April 2022
- belong to the Niger–Congo language family, though to several different branches. Akan, part of the Kwa branch of the Niger–Congo family, is a dialect...20 KB (1,549 words) - 01:06, 22 August 2024
- languages, which as a group, is a key member of the Volta–Niger sub-family of the Niger–Congo family of African languages. Itsekiri is spoken by nearly 900...9 KB (1,176 words) - 03:58, 2 June 2024
- Languages of Nigeria (section Niger–Congo languages)languages from the three major African language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger–Congo. Nigeria also has several as-yet unclassified languages...49 KB (2,729 words) - 17:46, 11 August 2024
- within the Central Tano branch of the Potou–Tano subfamily of the Niger–Congo family. Subgroups of the Akan people include: the Agona, Akuapem, Akwamu...36 KB (4,705 words) - 19:44, 28 August 2024
- Central Tano languages (category Volta–Congo language stubs)The Central Tano or Akan languages are languages of the Niger-Congo family (or perhaps the theorised Kwa languages) spoken in Ghana and Ivory Coast by...2 KB (91 words) - 12:03, 9 July 2024
- of French Congo, was born on board ship in the harbour of Rio de Janeiro on the 26th of January 1852. He was of Italian parentage, the family name being
- (proper: Seereer-Siin) is a language of the Senegambian branch of the Niger–Congo family spoken by most of the Serer people of Senegal, Gambia and Mauritania
- of the continent. People speaking Bantu languages (a branch of the Niger–Congo family) began in the second millennium BCE to spread from Cameroon eastward