Miyobe or Soruba is an unclassified Niger-Congo language of Benin and Togo. Güldemann (2018) notes that Miyobe cannot be securely classified within Gur... 2 KB (181 words) - 12:26, 19 December 2022 |
 | language with anywhere from 1,838 to 16,000 native speakers worldwide as of 2000. It contains the dialects and variants Wuri, Gwamhyə and Mba. Miyobe... 13 KB (1,247 words) - 07:20, 5 December 2023 |
high tone when there is ambiguity. Berba at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) * "Miyobe written with Latin script: Symbols & Characters". ScriptSource.org. v t... 2 KB (92 words) - 15:14, 11 December 2023 |
independent member of the Savanna languages, but some consider it and a number of other languages, such as Miyobe, as a Gur language. However, other than Bariba... 19 KB (656 words) - 04:47, 19 March 2024 |
 | 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... 78 KB (5,578 words) - 09:57, 28 March 2024 |
 | 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... 49 KB (2,715 words) - 07:33, 20 April 2024 |
 | other single Gur languages, the Tusya, Vyemo and Tiefo languages, are spoken in Burkina Faso. Another unclassified Gur language, Miyobe, is spoken in Benin... 59 KB (1,298 words) - 23:31, 16 January 2024 |
Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer... 34 KB (217 words) - 13:32, 22 April 2024 |
north-eastern Togo. The Miyobe language is spoken in Solla. Maplandia world gazetteer Pali, Tchaa. 2011. Description systematique de la langue Miyobe (Togo/Benin)... 5 KB (47 words) - 01:44, 17 November 2021 |
 | 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... 25 KB (955 words) - 00:27, 13 April 2024 |
 | The Atlantic–Congo languages are the largest demonstrated family of languages in Africa. They have characteristic noun class systems and form the core... 7 KB (411 words) - 04:01, 6 December 2023 |
 | 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... 50 KB (4,828 words) - 22:47, 17 April 2024 |
The Oti–Volta languages form a subgroup of the Gur languages, comprising about 30 languages of northern Ghana, Benin, and Burkina Faso spoken by twelve... 6 KB (509 words) - 19:57, 7 August 2023 |
 | 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... 30 KB (1,653 words) - 05:32, 14 March 2024 |
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... 5 KB (382 words) - 20:06, 14 March 2023 |
 | 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... 7 KB (484 words) - 06:29, 11 March 2024 |
Senegambian languages, traditionally known as the Northern West Atlantic, or in more recent literature sometimes confusingly as the Atlantic languages, are a... 12 KB (606 words) - 20:05, 13 April 2024 |
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)... 5 KB (395 words) - 10:37, 22 December 2023 |
 | hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. It unites the Mande languages, the Atlantic–Congo languages (which share... 64 KB (7,300 words) - 00:31, 11 February 2024 |
 | The Gbe languages (pronounced [ɡ͡bè]) form a cluster of about twenty related languages stretching across the area between eastern Ghana and western Nigeria... 36 KB (4,291 words) - 12:44, 30 March 2024 |
Igboid languages constitute a branch of the Volta–Niger language family. The subgroups are: Ekpeye Nuclear Igboid: Igbo, Ikwerre, Ika, Izii–Ikwo–Ezza–Mgbo... 6 KB (215 words) - 08:14, 8 March 2024 |
 | 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... 44 KB (925 words) - 04:04, 11 April 2024 |
 | Atlantic languages (also the Atlantic languages or North Atlantic languages) of West Africa are a major subgroup of the Niger–Congo languages. The Atlantic... 29 KB (1,320 words) - 02:32, 27 December 2023 |
 | The Grassfields languages (or Wide Grassfields languages) are a branch of the Southern Bantoid languages spoken in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon... 6 KB (393 words) - 16:05, 19 January 2024 |
 | 250 languages, with some accounts reporting around 600. These include 55 Afro-Asiatic languages, two Nilo-Saharan languages, four Ubangian languages, and... 78 KB (2,403 words) - 08:59, 4 March 2024 |
 | The Senufo or Senufic languages (Senoufo in French) has around 15 languages spoken by the Senufo in the north of Ivory Coast, the south of Mali and the... 8 KB (864 words) - 09:45, 19 June 2022 |
semi-Bantu language that is spoken in Cameroon by the Tikar people, as well as by the Bedzan Pygmies, who speak their own dialect of the language. A recent... 2 KB (155 words) - 23:39, 29 December 2023 |
hypothetical reconstructed proto-language of the proposed Niger–Congo language family. Unlike Nilo-Saharan, the Niger–Congo language phylum is accepted by mainstream... 19 KB (1,345 words) - 14:13, 5 April 2024 |
 | 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... 15 KB (964 words) - 22:59, 16 January 2024 |
and Benin and western Niger. The languages are: Ngangam Gourmanchéma (Gurma) Moba (Bimoba) Ntcham (Akaselem) Miyobe Konkomba Bodomo, Adams. 2020. "Mabia:... 3 KB (191 words) - 20:46, 20 April 2023 |