HyperDic: niger-congo

English > 1 sense of the word Niger-Congo:
NOUNcommunicationNiger-Congoa family of African language spoken in west Africa
English > Niger-Congo: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
MeaningA family of African language spoken in west Africa.
NarrowerBantu, Bantoid languageA family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
Gur, VoltaicA group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana
KwaA group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria
MandeA group of African languages in the Niger-Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast
SangoA trade language widely used in Chad
West AfricanA group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa
BroaderNiger-Kordofanian, Niger-Kordofanian languageThe family of languages that includes most of the languages spoken in Africa south of the Sahara
Spanishlengua níger-congo, lengua nígero-congoleña

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