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单词 Benue-Congo
释义

Benue-Congo

/ˈbɛnweɪ /
adjective
Relating to or denoting a major branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages, spoken mainly in Nigeria and including Efik and Fula.The only published data on eBoze are some hundred words in the Benue-Congo Comparative Wordlist....
  • Frequently Niger-Congo is divided into the linguistic subgroups: Atlantic, Benue-Congo, Kwa, Mande and Voltaic.
  • Indeed, the Adamawa-Ubangi branches and Benue-Congo of the subfamily Niger-Congo nearly cover the whole Congolese territory.
noun [mass noun]
The Benue-Congo group of languages.Other African languages which have only singular logophoric pronouns include Babungo, a Grassfields language, Igbo, a Benue-Congo language, and Songhai, a Central Sudanic language....
  • Formerly considered as a Kwa language, recent research has placed Ibo in the Benue-Congo family of languages.
  • Like most Benue-Congo languages, Ibibio is tonal and is an example of a terraced level tone language.

Origin

From the names of rivers.

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