Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small group of related languages spoken in Sudan and forming a branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
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- adjective linguistics Of or pertaining to a
geographic grouping of three to fivelanguage families spoken in the Nuba hills of Kordofan Province,Sudan .
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- noun a group of languages spoken in the relatively small Kordofan area of the south Sudan
Etymologies
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Examples
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The ancestry of African Americans is predominantly from Niger-Kordofanian (~71%), European (~13%), and other African (~8%) populations.
African genetic diversity Kosmo 2009
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The ancestry of African Americans is predominantly from Niger-Kordofanian (~71%), European (~13%), and other African (~8%) populations.
Archive 2009-05-01 Kosmo 2009
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That last bit of info, "The ancestry of African Americans is predominantly from Niger-Kordofanian (~71%), European (~13%), and other African (~8%) populations", that is of such potential importance to those doing family geneological research.
African genetic diversity Kosmo 2009
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West Africans speaking the Niger-Kordofanian language were found to share many genetic traits with African-Americans, indicating they were the ancestors of most of the slaves sent to the New World.
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West Africans speaking the Niger-Kordofanian language were found to share many genetic traits with African-Americans, indicating they were the ancestors of most of the slaves sent to the New World.
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West Africans speaking the Niger-Kordofanian language were found to share many genetic traits with African-Americans, indicating they were the ancestors of most of the slaves sent to the New World.
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West Africans speaking the Niger-Kordofanian language were found to share many genetic traits with African-Americans, indicating they were the ancestors of most of the slaves sent to the New World.
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It was found that the ancestry of African Americans is mainly from Niger-Kordofanian (71\%), European (13\%), and other African (8\%) populations, although admixture levels varied considerably among individuals.
GenealogyBlog 2009
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The data shows that African-Americans are descended primarily from Niger-Kordofanian ancestors
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The similarity of the West African component of African-American ancestry to the profile from non-Bantu Niger-Kordofanian speaking populations, which include the Igbo and Yoruba from Nigeria and the Brong from Ghana A comparison of the West African segments of African-American genomes.
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