Definitions
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- proper noun obsolete
Niger-Congo
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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)
Etymologies
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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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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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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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There are word lists for the major Indo-European languages as well as a number of other families: Afroasiatic, Austronesian, Dravidian, Niger-Kordofanian, and so on.
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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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The data shows that African-Americans are descended primarily from Niger-Kordofanian ancestors
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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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