Niger-Congo

Ni·ger-Con·go  (njr-kngg)

n.

A large and widely dispersed language family of sub-Saharan Africa that includes the Mande, West Atlantic, and Central Niger-Congo branches.

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Niger-Congo

n

(Linguistics / Languages) a family of languages of Africa consisting of the Bantu languages together with most of the languages of the coastal regions of West Africa. The chief branches are Benue-Congo (including Bantu), Kwa, Mande, and West Atlantic

adj

(Linguistics / Languages) relating to or belonging to this family of languages

Thesaurus

Noun

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Niger-Congo - a family of African language spoken in west Africa Sango - a trade language widely used in Chad Niger-Kordofanian, Niger-Kordofanian language - the family of languages that includes most of the languages spoken in Africa south of the Sahara; the majority of them are tonal languages but there are important exceptions (e.g., Swahili or Fula) Bantoid language, Bantu - a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent Gur, Voltaic - a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana West African - a group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa Mande - a group of African languages in the Niger-Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast Kwa - a group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria