niger-congo in English

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denoting or belonging to a large phylum of languages in Africa, named after the rivers Niger and Congo. It comprises most of the languages spoken by the indigenous peoples of Africa south of the Sahara and includes the Bantu, Mande, Gur, and Kwa families.

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1. Bantu definition is - a family of Niger-Congo languages spoken in central and southern Africa.

2. The Bantu languages (or Narrow Bantu languages) are a branch of the Niger-Congo languages.There are about 520 languages in the Bantu family, 670 languages in the Southern Bantoid branch which includes Bantu, and 1,532 in Niger-Congo

3. Akan languages, dialect cluster of the Nyo group within the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo language family

4. Akan, ethnolinguistic grouping of peoples of the Guinea Coast who speak Akan languages (of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family)

5. Akan, a Central Tano language, constitutes one of the many languages which form the Kwa sub-family of the higher Niger-Congo phylum

6. Bambara, ethnolinguistic group of the upper Niger region of Mali whose language, Bambara (Bamana), belongs to the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo language family

7. Bantu languages, a group of some 500 languages belonging to the Bantoid subgroup of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family

8. Anyi, African people who inhabit the tropical forest of eastern Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and speak a language of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo language family

9. Bemba (also called CiBemba or IciBemba; ISO 639-3 code bem) is a Niger-Congo language belonging to the Central Narrow Bantu branch (Zone M in Guthrie's 1948, 1967–71 classification)

10. Bantu peoples, the approximately 85 million speakers of the more than 500 distinct languages of the Bantu subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family, occupying almost the entire southern projection of the African continent.

11. People of Angola Ethnic and linguistic composition Apart from a few Europeans and isolated bands of Northern Khoisan speakers such as the !Kung (a San group) in the remote southeast, all Angolans speak Bantu languages of the Niger-Congo language family, which …

12. Angola - Angola - People: Apart from a few Europeans and isolated bands of Northern Khoisan speakers such as the !Kung (a San group) in the remote southeast, all Angolans speak Bantu languages of the Niger-Congo language family, which dominates western, central, and southern Africa

13. The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members on continental Asia, that are spoken by about 386 million people.It is on par with Indo-European, Niger–Congo, Afroasiatic and Uralic as one of the best-established ancient language families