Niger–Congo languages - Wikipedia
Niger–Congo languages are known for their system of noun classification, traces of which can be found in every branch of the family but Mande, Ijoid, Dogon, and the Katla and Rashad branches of Kordofanian.
Niger-Congo languages | African Language Family | Britannica
The languages of present-day Niger-Congo are divided into nine major branches: Mande, Kordofanian, Atlantic, Ijoid, Kru, Gur, Adamawa-Ubangi, Kwa, and Benue-Congo, which are shown in bold in the diagram.
Atlantic–Congo languages - Wikipedia
The Atlantic–Congo languages make up the largest demonstrated family of languages in Africa. They have characteristic noun class systems and form the core of the Niger–Congo family hypothesis. They comprise all of Niger–Congo apart from Mande , Dogon , Ijoid , Siamou , Kru , the Katla and Rashad languages (previously classified as ...
Niger-Congo languages summary | Britannica
Niger-Congo languages are spoken by about 85% of the population of Africa, from Dakar, Senegal, in the west to Mombasa, Kenya, and in the east and south to Cape Town, S.Af. The name Niger-Congo was introduced in 1955 by Joseph H. Greenberg.
Niger-Congo Language Family - Structure & Writing - MustGo
The Niger-Congo language family is one of the largest language families in the world and the largest one in Africa in terms of its geographical spread across most of sub-Saharan Africa, number of speakers, and the number of languages (1514).
Niger-Congo Languages - Linguistics - Oxford Bibliographies
Nov 29, 2018 · Niger-Congo languages dominate sub-Saharan Africa, and the family constitutes one of the world’s largest referential language groups, with around fifteen hundred languages. The precise composition of Niger-Congo is not settled.
Proto-Niger–Congo language - Wikipedia
Proto-Niger–Congo is traditionally assumed to have had a disyllabic root structure similar to that of Proto-Bantu, namely (C)V-CVCV [6] (Williamson 2000, [7] etc.). However, Roger Blench (2016) proposes a trisyllabic (CVCVCV) syllabic structure for Proto-Niger–Congo roots, [6] while Konstantin Pozdniakov (2016) suggests that the main prototypical structure of Proto …
Niger-Congo languages - Widespread, African, Bantu | Britannica
Niger-Congo languages - Widespread, African, Bantu: The system of noun classes is probably the characteristic most widely found in Niger-Congo languages and best known to those interested in language phenomena.
Exploring the Niger-Congo Languages - Linguistics
There are over 181 million speakers of Niger-Congo languages. The family is divided into three main groups: Mande, Atlantic-Congo and Kordofanian of which 180 million are Mande or Atlantic-Congo speakers and 200,000 are Kordofanian speakers.
9 - Niger-Congo Linguistic Features and Typology
May 23, 2019 · Niger-Congo Linguistic Features and Typology; By Larry M. Hyman, Nicholas Rolle, Hannah Sande, Emily Clem, Peter S. E. Jenks, Florian Lionnet, John Merrill, Nicholas Baier; Edited by H. Ekkehard Wolff, Universität Leipzig; Book: The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics; Online publication: 23 May 2019
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