niger-kordofanian

Noun
  1. 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) (synset 107003937)
    referred to in: swahili - the most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa
    is a type of: natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
    subtypes:
    • kordofanian - a group of languages spoken in the relatively small Kordofan area of the south Sudan
    • niger-congo - a family of African language spoken in west Africa
    same as: niger-kordofanian language

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