Niger–Congo languages - Wikipedia
Niger–Congo languages are known for their system of noun classification, traces of which can be found in every branch of the family but Mande, Ijoid, Dogon, and the Katla and Rashad branches of Kordofanian.
Niger-Congo languages | African Language Family | Britannica
The languages of present-day Niger-Congo are divided into nine major branches: Mande, Kordofanian, Atlantic, Ijoid, Kru, Gur, Adamawa-Ubangi, Kwa, and Benue-Congo, which are shown in bold in the diagram.
Niger-Congo Languages - Linguistics - Oxford Bibliographies
2018年11月29日 · Niger-Congo languages dominate sub-Saharan Africa, and the family constitutes one of the world’s largest referential language groups, with around fifteen hundred languages. The precise composition of Niger-Congo is not settled.
Niger-Congo languages - Widespread, African, Bantu | Britannica
Niger-Congo languages - Widespread, African, Bantu: The system of noun classes is probably the characteristic most widely found in Niger-Congo languages and best known to those interested in language phenomena.
Niger-Congo languages summary | Britannica
Niger-Congo languages are spoken by about 85% of the population of Africa, from Dakar, Senegal, in the west to Mombasa, Kenya, and in the east and south to Cape Town, S.Af. The name Niger-Congo was introduced in 1955 by Joseph H. Greenberg.
Niger-Congo Language Family - Structure & Writing - MustGo
The Niger-Congo language family is one of the largest language families in the world and the largest one in Africa in terms of its geographical spread across most of sub-Saharan Africa, number of speakers, and the number of languages (1514).
Exploring the Niger-Congo Languages - Linguistics
The Niger-Congo Language family represents one of the largest groups of languages in the world. It consists of 1,436 languages and dialects spread over a relatively small geographic area (Grimes 64).
The Niger-Congo Languages: An Exciting Exploration of Africa’s ...
The Niger-Congo languages, with over 1,400 distinct languages and spoken by approximately 700 million people, form one of the world’s largest language families. This vast family has sculpted the socio-cultural and historical tapestry of much of sub-Saharan Africa.
2013年12月24日 · Niger-Congo is one of the largest language families in the world—perhaps even the largest— spanning an enormous area of Africa from the southern edge of the Sahara desert to the south of the continent itself.
This work is a comparative study of tense and aspect encoding in Niger-Congo languages. It is based on an examination of the tense-aspect systems of a sample of around twenty Niger-Congo languages.