niger-congo
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1. a family of African language spoken in west Africa (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | niger-kordofanian, niger-kordofanian language, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | sango, |
| definition | : | a trade language widely used in Chad (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | bantoid language, bantu, |
| definition | : | a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | gur, voltaic, |
| definition | : | a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | west african, |
| definition | : | a group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | mande, |
| definition | : | a group of African languages in the Niger-Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | kwa, |
| definition | : | a group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria (noun.communication) |
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