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Niger-kordofanian

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Niger-Congo obsolete
Noun
  1. 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) wordnet

Etymology

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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