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

• meaningfulness
• meaningless
• meaninglessly
• meaninglessness
• meaningly
• meanly
• meanness
• means
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• means test
• meanspirited
• meanspiritedly
• meantime
• meanwhile
• meany
• mearstone
• measles
• measly
• measurability
• measurable
• measurably
• measure
• measure out
• measure up
• measured