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NIGER-KORDOFANIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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)
Synonyms:
Niger-Kordofanian; Niger-Kordofanian language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Niger-Kordofanian" is a kind of...):
natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)
Domain category:
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Niger-Kordofanian"):
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)
