niger-congo

Noun
  1. A family of African language spoken in west Africa (synset 107004424)
    is a type of: niger-kordofanian, niger-kordofanian language - 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)
    subtypes:
    • sango - a trade language widely used in Chad
    • bantoid language, bantu - a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
    • gur, voltaic - a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana
    • west african - a group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa
    • mande - a group of African languages in the Niger-Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast
    • kwa - a group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria

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