Niger-Kordofanian

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Niger-Kordofanian - 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)Niger-Kordofanian languagenatural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer languageKordofanian - a group of languages spoken in the relatively small Kordofan area of the south SudanNiger-Congo - a family of African language spoken in west AfricaSwahili - 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

Niger-Kordofanian

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Niger-Kordofanian:

see African languagesAfrican languages,
geographic rather than linguistic classification of languages spoken on the African continent. Historically the term refers to the languages of sub-Saharan Africa, which do not belong to a single family, but are divided among several distinct linguistic stocks.
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Niger-Kordofanian

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Related to Niger-Kordofanian: Niger-Congo

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Synonyms for Niger-Kordofanian

noun the family of languages that includes most of the languages spoken in Africa south of the Sahara

Synonyms

Niger-Kordofanian language

Related Words

natural language
tongue
Kordofanian
Niger-Congo
Swahili

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