• 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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  • They traditionally speak the Ngbandi language, which is part of the Ubangian language family. Historically the Ngbandi were subsistence farmers, and...
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  • 6 million second language speakers. Sango is a language with contested classification, with some linguists considering it a Ngbandi-based creole, while...
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    Ebola River (category Articles containing Northern Ngbandi-language text)
    commonly known by its Ngbandi name Legbala, is the headstream of the Mongala River, a tributary of the Congo River, in northern Democratic Republic of...
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  • Palenque Sango language, Ngbandi-based creole language spoken in the Central African Republic Unserdeutsch language, a German-based creole language spoken primarily...
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  • Ubangian Banda Ngbandi (Sango, with 2 million speakers total, is Ngbandi-based) Sere–Mba Sere Ngbaka–Mba Ngbaka (note the principal Gbaya language is also called...
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    Uthman dan Fodio in the 19th century. Hausa is the official language of several states in Northern Nigeria and the most important dialect is generally regarded...
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    Mali Tigrinya in Ethiopia and Eritrea Austronesian Malagasy in Madagascar Ngbandi creole Sango in the Central African Republic French Creole Seychelles Creole...
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    intertribal trading in the Central African Republic. It is based on the Northern Ngbandi language spoken by the Sango people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
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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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  • 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 former name of NordGen – Nordic Genetic Resource Center Northern Ngbandi language, ISO 639-3 code Novagalicia Banco, a Spanish bank Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel...
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  • Northern Bantoid (or North Bantoid) is a branch of the Bantoid languages. It consists of the Mambiloid, Dakoid, and Tikar languages of eastern Nigeria...
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    Ubangi River in the Central African Republic. They speak a Northern Ngbandi-based creole language called Sango, which belongs to the Ubangian branch of the...
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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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  • Tikar (also called Tigé, Tigré or Tikari) is a Northern Bantoid, semi-Bantu language that is spoken in Cameroon by the Tikar people, as well as by the...
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  • required) Northern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Güldemann, Tom (2018). "Historical linguistics and genealogical language classification...
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  • form a branch of the "Yoruba–Edo–Akoko–Igbo" (YEAI) group of Niger–Congo languages.[citation needed] It is spoken in the LGAs of Akoko North East, Akoko...
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    the Senufo languages in six groups. Combining the two classifications results in the grouping below. Northern Senufo Suppire–Mamara languages Mamara (Minyanka...
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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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  • Fali comprises two languages spoken in northern Cameroon. Included in Greenberg's Adamawa languages (as group G11), it was excluded from that family by...
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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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  • northwestern Central African Republic, northern Cameroon and eastern Nigeria. Their best-known member is Mbum; other languages in the group include Tupuri and...
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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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    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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    Mauritania, northern Ghana, northwestern Nigeria and northern Benin. The Mande languages show a few lexical similarities with the Atlantic–Congo language family...
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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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    subject–verb–object. The Gbe language area is bordered to the west and east by the Volta River in Ghana and the Weme River in Benin. The northern border is between...
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    The 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...
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  • Tògbò (also in South Sudan) Yàngere Peripheral (11 languages) West Central: Dákpá, Gbî, Northern Gbàgà, Wójò South Central: Làngabàsi (or Làngbàsi) (also...
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