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Niger-Kordofanian

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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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Coined in the 1960s, from the then-valid classification of this language family in the two sub-branches Niger-Congo and Kordofanian, which is today considered obsolete.

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