1. 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

Type of: natural language, tongue

• attritional
• attune
• ATV
• atypical
• atypical pneumonia
• atypicality
• atypically
• Au
• au courant
• au fait
• au gratin
• au jus
• au naturel
• au pair
• au pair girl
• au revoir
• aubade
• auberge
• aubergine
• auburn
• AUC
• Auchincloss
• Auckland
• auction
• auction block