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WEST AFRICAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("West African" is a kind of...):
Niger-Congo (a family of African language spoken in west Africa)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "West African"):
Ful; Fula; Fulani; Peul (a family of languages of the Fulani of West Africa and used as a lingua franca in the sub-Saharan regions from Senegal to Chad; the best known of the West African languages)
Serer (a West African language closely related to Fula; spoken primarily in Senegal and Gambia)
Wolof (the West African language of the Wolof in Senegal; related to Fula)
Derivation:
West African (of or relating to the countries or cultures or people of West Africa)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to the countries or cultures or people of West Africa
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
West Africa (an area of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea)
Derivation:
West African (a group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa)
