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    NigerCongo is a hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. It unites the Mande languages, the Atlantic–Congo languages...
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    the NigerCongo family hypothesis. They comprise all of NigerCongo apart from Mande, Dogon, Ijoid, Siamou, Kru, the Katla and Rashad languages (previously...
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    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...
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  • Proto-NigerCongo is the hypothetical reconstructed proto-language of the proposed NigerCongo language family. Unlike Nilo-Saharan, the NigerCongo language...
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    The Volta–Niger family of languages, also known as West Benue–Congo or East Kwa, is one of the branches of the NigerCongo language family, with perhaps...
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    Bantu languages, which are spoken across most of Sub-Saharan Africa. This makes Benue–Congo one of the largest subdivisions of the NigerCongo language family...
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    Mande languages show a few lexical similarities with the Atlantic–Congo language family, so together they have been proposed as parts of a larger Niger–Congo...
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    Atlantic languages (also the Atlantic languages or North Atlantic languages) of West Africa are a major subgroup of the NigerCongo languages. The Atlantic...
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    Atlantic–Congo core of NigerCongo but that the two Katla languages have no trace of ever having had such a system. However, the Kadu languages and some...
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    and the country contains languages from the three major African language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan and NigerCongo. Nigeria also has several...
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    Niger has between 8 and 20 indigenous languages, belonging to the Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan and NigerCongo families. The discrepancy comes from the...
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    to the Niger-Congo phylum. The name was introduced 1895 by Gottlob Krause and derives from the word for 'people' (Kwa) in many of these languages, as illustrated...
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    Dogon languages are a small closely related language family that is spoken by the Dogon people of Mali and may belong to the proposed NigerCongo family...
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    languages are tonal, as are Niger-Congo languages.[citation needed] The NigerCongo languages constitute the largest language family spoken in West Africa...
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  • Adamawa languages as "Eastern Adamawa". They were soon removed to a separate branch of NigerCongo, for example within Blench's Savanna languages. However...
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    major branch of the Benue–Congo language family. It consists of the Northern Bantoid languages and the Southern Bantoid languages, a division which also...
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    Afroasiatic languages, including: Zenaga-Berber, Tamasheq-Berber, Hassaaniya Arabic and Standard written Arabic. Some ethnic minorities speak Niger-Congo languages...
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    constitute their own branch of the Atlantic–Congo sub-family of the NigerCongo languages. Garber (1987) estimates the total number of Senufos at some 1.5...
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    as a second language. The native Niger-Congo languages can be grouped in four language families: Mande, Kru, Mel, and the divergent language Grebo . Kpelle-speaking...
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    The NigerCongo languages, ed. by John Bendor-Samuel, 3–45. University Press of America. Roger Blench. "Niger-Congo classification : Niger-Congo: an alternative...
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  • influence on Defaka. The Ijoid languages, or perhaps just Ijaw, are proposed to form a divergent branch of the hypothetical NigerCongo family and are noted for...
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    transcription delimiters. The Gur languages, also known as Central Gur or Mabia, belong to the NigerCongo languages. They are spoken in the Sahelian and...
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    languages were traditionally placed in the Kwa branch of the NigerCongo languages, but more recently have been classified as Volta–Niger languages....
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  • Kwa languages along with Akan and other languages, and later as a Benue-Congo language but has since classified among the Volta-Niger languages along...
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  • The Savannas languages, also known as Gur–Adamawa or Adamawa–Gur, is a branch of the NigerCongo languages that includes Greenberg's Gur and Adamawa–Ubangui...
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    or Congo Mountain, in Costa Rica NigerCongo languages Kongo languages Kongo language, a Bantu language Kongo people, a Bantu ethnic group The Congos, a...
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  • most closely related to the Central Gur languages, or perhaps constitute an independent branch of NigerCongo, but that they do not form a group with...
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  • proposed by Joseph Greenberg in The Languages of Africa under the name Adamawa–Eastern as a primary branch of the NigerCongo family, which is in turn divided...
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  • Adamawa–Ubangi family of NigerCongo languages. They are among the least studied languages in Africa, and include many endangered languages; by far the largest...
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  • Proto-Niger-Congo: A step-by-step reconstruction. ISBN 9783961100989. Capo, H. B. C. (1989). "Defoid". In Bendor-Samuel, J. (ed.). The Niger-Congo Languages: A...
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