Mboi (Mboire, Mboyi) is an Adamawa language of Nigeria. Its name is that of one of its dialects, the other two being Banga and Handa. These are rather...
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Mboi or MboI may be, Mboi language Ben Mboi Nafsiah Mboi MboI a well-known restriction enzyme from the bacteria Moraxella bovis, used in biotechnology...
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The Bena–Mboi (Ɓəna–Mboi) a.k.a. Yungur languages form a branch of the Adamawa family. They are spoken in central Adamawa State, eastern Nigeria, just...
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Aloysius Benedictus "Ben" Mboi (22 May 1935 – 23 June 2015) was the Governor of East Nusa Tenggara from 1978 to 1988. By profession he was a physician...
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(Bəna–Mboi) Kaan (Libo) Mboi (Gəna, Banga, Handa) Yungur–Roba: Lala-Roba, Voro, Bəna Kleinewillinghöfer (1996) notes the affinities of the Bikwin languages...
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The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2...
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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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Adamawa Languages Project. Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich. 2015. Vere wordlists. Adamawa Languages Project. Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich. 2014. Ɓəna-Mboi comparative...
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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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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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The Atlantic–Congo languages comprise the largest demonstrated family of languages in Africa. They have characteristic noun class systems and form the...
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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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hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. It unites the Mande languages, the Atlantic–Congo languages (which share...
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Yungur (i.e., Bena-Mboi), and Tula-Longuda subgroups. There are several clusters of Adamawa languages; among the Gur languages, only the core of that...
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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 Edoid languages are a few dozen languages spoken in Southern Nigeria, predominantly in the former Bendel State. The name Edoid derives from its most...
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language family. It consists of the Northern Bantoid languages and the Southern Bantoid languages, a division which also includes the Bantu languages...
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Igboid languages constitute a branch of the Volta–Niger language family. Williamson and Blench conclude that the Igboid languages form a "language cluster"...
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Teochew Min (redirect from Chaozhou language)
lateral 買 bói bhoi2 [ᵐ̥boi 鵝 gô gho5 ᵑ̊ɡo 來 lāi lai7 ⁿ̥ɺai 食 tsia̍h ziah8 tsiaʔ] 買 鵝 來 食 bói gô lāi tsia̍h bhoi2 gho5 lai7 ziah8 [ᵐ̥boi ᵑ̊ɡo ⁿ̥ɺai tsiaʔ]...
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Senegambian languages, traditionally known as the Northern West Atlantic, or in more recent literature sometimes confusingly as the Atlantic languages, are a...
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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 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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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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Teju Jagua, a half-lizard, half-dog creature considered lord of caverns Mbói Tu'ĩ, a giant snake with the head of a parrot Moñái, a giant horned snake...
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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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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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250 languages, with some accounts reporting around 600. These include 55 Afro-Asiatic languages, two Nilo-Saharan languages, four Ubangian languages, and...
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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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