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 (1,345 words) - 14:13, 5 April 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 |
and the country contains languages from the three major African language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger–Congo. Nigeria also has several... 49 KB (2,715 words) - 07:33, 20 April 2024 |
Niger has between 8 and 20 indigenous languages, belonging to the Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger–Congo families. The discrepancy comes from the... 7 KB (280 words) - 16:43, 3 August 2023 |
Dogon languages are a small closely related language family that is spoken by the Dogon people of Mali and may belong to the proposed Niger–Congo family... 19 KB (1,267 words) - 21:06, 28 August 2023 |
Adamawa languages as "Eastern Adamawa". They were soon removed to a separate branch of Niger–Congo, for example within Blench's Savanna languages. However... 36 KB (489 words) - 04:28, 6 January 2024 |
major branch of the Benue–Congo language family. It consists of the Northern Bantoid languages and the Southern Bantoid languages, a division which also... 4 KB (334 words) - 15:47, 19 January 2024 |
constitute their own branch of the Atlantic–Congo sub-family of the Niger–Congo languages. Garber (1987) estimates the total number of Senufos at some 1.5... 8 KB (864 words) - 09:45, 19 June 2022 |
influence on Defaka. The Ijoid languages, or perhaps just Ijaw, are proposed to form a divergent branch of the hypothetical Niger–Congo family and are noted for... 6 KB (425 words) - 19:25, 3 December 2023 |
languages were traditionally placed in the Kwa branch of the Niger–Congo languages, but more recently have been classified as Volta–Niger languages.... 36 KB (4,291 words) - 12:44, 30 March 2024 |
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... 10 KB (1,096 words) - 21:01, 21 March 2024 |
The Savannas languages, also known as Gur–Adamawa or Adamawa–Gur, is a branch of the Niger–Congo languages that includes Greenberg's Gur and Adamawa–Ubangui... 11 KB (781 words) - 10:45, 7 November 2022 |
or Congo Mountain, in Costa Rica Niger–Congo languages Kongo languages Kongo language, a Bantu language Kongo people, a Bantu ethnic group The Congos, a... 4 KB (489 words) - 20:27, 11 December 2023 |
most closely related to the Central Gur languages, or perhaps constitute an independent branch of Niger–Congo, but that they do not form a group with... 5 KB (382 words) - 20:06, 14 March 2023 |
proposed by Joseph Greenberg in The Languages of Africa under the name Adamawa–Eastern as a primary branch of the Niger–Congo family, which is in turn divided... 6 KB (504 words) - 19:11, 13 June 2023 |
Adamawa–Ubangi family of Niger–Congo languages. They are among the least studied languages in Africa, and include many endangered languages; by far the largest... 90 KB (1,437 words) - 22:17, 31 March 2024 |
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... 2 KB (220 words) - 02:27, 4 January 2024 |