What does "niger-kordofanian" mean?

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)

What is a synonym for "niger-kordofanian"?

Common synonyms include: niger-kordofanian language.

Niger-kordofanian

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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

Proper Noun

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Niger-Congo obsolete

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niger-kordofanian language

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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