| Noun | 1. | 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) natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language Kordofanian - a group of languages spoken in the relatively small Kordofan area of the south Sudan Niger-Congo - a family of African language spoken in west Africa Swahili - the most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa |