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    Bangime (/ˌbæŋɡiˈmeɪ/; bàŋɡí–mɛ̀, or, in full, Bàŋgɛ́rí-mɛ̀) is a language isolate spoken by 3,500 ethnic Dogon in seven villages in southern Mali, who...
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    Dogon languages, along with Bangime: Comparison of numerals in individual languages: Languages of Mali Dogon word lists (Wiktionary) Dogon Languages Archived...
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  • Tuoba† (China) Rouran† (Mongolia) Beothuk† (Newfoundland) Meroitic† (Sudan) Bangime (Mali) Jalaa† (Nigeria) Kwaza (Brazil) Mpre† (Ghana) Bayot (Senegal) Laal...
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  • possibly[weasel words] Bangime. Anti-languages are sometimes created by authors and used by characters in novels. These anti-languages do not have complete...
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    Evidence from substrate vocabulary in Bangime and Dogon. Available in: http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Isolates/MT%20XX%20Blench%20off%20print...
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    speak the Bangime language, which is unrelated to the other Dogon languages and presumed by linguists to be an ancient, pre-Dogon language isolate, although...
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    Bandiagara (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    Escarpment it has about 2,000 speakers of the vibrant Bangime language, an isolate used mainly as an anti-language; it has the highest point of the country. Bandiagara...
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    spoken in Ethiopia Tuu, or Taa-ǃKwi, two surviving languages Hadza, an isolate of Tanzania Bangime, a likely isolate of Mali Jalaa, a likely isolate of...
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    over 525 native languages spoken in Nigeria. The official language and most widely spoken lingua franca is English, which was the language of Colonial Nigeria...
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    Abbie; List, Johann-Mattis (September 2018). Bangime: Secret Language, Language Isolate, or Language Island?. Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena; Nakagawa,...
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  • Thumbnail for Kwa languages
    The Kwa languages, often specified as New Kwa, are a proposed but as-yet-undemonstrated family of languages spoken in the south-eastern part of Ivory...
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  • Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
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    of 2016 Bangime, spoken in Dogon country but seemingly unrelated to Dogon. Siamou, once classified as Kru. The various Kordofanian languages are spoken...
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    The Atlantic–Congo languages are the largest demonstrated family of languages in Africa. They have characteristic noun class systems and form the core...
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  • Igboid languages constitute a branch of the Volta–Niger language family. The subgroups are: Ekpeye Nuclear Igboid: Igbo, Ikwerre, Ika, Izii–Ikwo–Ezza–Mgbo...
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    The Mande languages (Mandén, Manding; [needs IPA]) are a group of languages spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé peoples. They include...
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    The Bantu languages (English: UK: /ˌbænˈtuː/, US: /ˈbæntuː/ Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu...
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  • The Gbaya languages, also known as Gbaya–Manza–Ngbaka, are a family of perhaps a dozen languages spoken mainly in the western Central African Republic...
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    The Cross River or Delta–Cross languages are a branch of the Benue–Congo language family spoken in south-easternmost Nigeria, with some speakers in south-westernmost...
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  • Jeffrey (September 2016). "A grammar of Penange (Dogon, Mali)". p. 1. "Dogon and Bangime Linguistics. Dogon languages". Retrieved 2015-03-25.. v t e...
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  • The Ngbandi language is a dialect continuum of the Ubangian family spoken by a half-million or so people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ngbandi proper)...
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    Kordofan region of Sudan: Talodi–Heiban languages, Lafofa languages, Rashad languages, Katla languages and Kadu languages. The first four groups are sometimes...
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    The Gbe languages (pronounced [ɡ͡bè]) form a cluster of about twenty related languages stretching across the area between eastern Ghana and western Nigeria...
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    The forty or so Plateau languages are a tentative group of Benue–Congo languages spoken by 15 million people on the Jos Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Nasarawa...
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    of the Dagaare language are also found in Cameroon. The Samu languages of Burkina Faso are Gur languages. Like most Niger–Congo languages, the ancestor...
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    Atlantic languages (also the Atlantic languages or North Atlantic languages) of West Africa are a major subgroup of the Niger–Congo languages. The Atlantic...
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  • The Adamawa /ædəˈmɑːwə/ languages are a putative family of 80–90 languages scattered across the Adamawa Plateau in Central Africa, in northern Cameroon...
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    Yoruboid is a language family composed of the Igala group of dialects spoken in south central Nigeria, and the Edekiri group spoken in a band across Togo...
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    The Kru languages are spoken by the Kru people from the southeast of Liberia to the west of Ivory Coast. According to Güldemann (2018), Kru lacks sufficient...
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    The Grassfields languages (or Wide Grassfields languages) are a branch of the Southern Bantoid languages spoken in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon...
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