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Congo Demographics of the Republic of the Congo Congo's sparse population is concentrated in the southwestern portion of the c... Orientale, Congo Orientale (formerly Haute-Zaire) is a province of the Uganda to the east. Economy of the Republic of the Congo Overview The economy of the Republic of the Congo is a mixture of village united St... www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/congo.html

Yorùbá language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This Niger-Congo languages -related article is a stub. The native tongue of the Yorùbá people, it is spoken, among other languages, in Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Sierra Leone, as well as by communities in Brazil and Cuba (where it is called Nago). In addition to the vertical bars, three further diacritics are used on vowels and syllabic nasal consonants to indicate the language's tones: an acute accent for the high tone, a grave accent for the low tone, and an optional macron for the middle tone. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yoruba_language

Ethnologue: Nigeria (IZON, IZO, UZO) [ IJC ] 338,700 (1977 Voegelin and Voegelin); 100,000 in Kolokuma (1991 UBS); 1,770,000 all Ijo languages, 2% of the population (1991 SIL). Benue State, Gboko LGA; Taraba State, Wukari LGA. Benue State, Ankpa, Idah, Dekina, and Bassa LGA's; Edo State, Agbazko and Oshimili LGA's; Anambra State, Anambra LGA. www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Nigr.html

Niger-Congo languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Niger-Congo languages constitute one of the world's major language families, and Africa 's largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages. The Laal, Mpre, and Jalaa languages are often linked with Niger-Congo, but have yet to be conclusively classified. The Yoruba and Igbo languages, spoken in Nigeria. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Niger-Congo

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Benue-Congo pt. 2 You have reached the second page of Benue-Congo languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana. Kongo is spoken in Zaire, Congo, and Angola. Swahili is the official language of both Tanzania and Kenya; it is also spoken in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Zaire. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/benucg2h.htm

Web resources for Niger-Congo languages The Perema [Wom] language of northeastern Nigeria: classification, phonology and noun morphology (PDF) by Roger M. Blench, 2000. A summary report on the sociolinguistic survey of the Sehwi language (PDF) by Samuel Ntymu and Ebenezer Boafo, 2002. Sociolinguistic survey of the Gua language area (PDF) by Barbara Tompkins, Deborah Hatfield and Angela Kluge, 2002. goto.glocalnet.net /maho/webresources/nigercongo.html

Benue-Congo It is a mixture of Arabic and individual tribal languages, mostly Bantu, a sub-group of the Benue Congo family. the African people were from the following language families: Atlantic, Mande, Kwa (including Akan and Gbe), Gur, Nigerian Benue- Congo, Ijoid and Bantu. MAGAZINES Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences 9/1/2001 Blake, Barry J. of European domination is enormous. ensiklopedie.com /Benue-Congo

MSN Encarta - Search Results - Benue Benue, river, west central Africa, the main tributary of the Niger River. African Languages, African Languages, verb and noun usage Search for Magazine Articles on " Benue " encarta.msn.com /Benue.html

SIL Bibliography: Language classification McElhanon, Kenneth A. A classification of the languages of the Morobe province, Papua New Guinea, with the linguistic situation of individual villages. McElhanon, Kenneth A. "Lexicostatistics and the classification of Huon Peninsula languages." Clouse, Duane A. "Towards a reconstruction and reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of Irian Jaya." www.ethnologue.com /show_subject.asp?code=LCL

2005 Population Figures for Jakarta, Indonesia Timor, containing scores of ethnic groups, languages and religions. Language: The national language of Bahasa Indonesia is spoken... Thankfully one language, Bahasa Indonesia, is spoken throughout the... travel.synabu.com /cities/J/Jakarta,_Indonesia.html

HRELP - Birgit Hellwig She has been working on Chadic languages since 1998; her MA thesis focused on language contact between Chadic and Benue Congo languages; and her PhD thesis investigated in detail the grammatical, semantic and pragmatic aspects of how postural information is coded in one Chadic language (Goemai). Birgit Hellwig is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP), where she is working on Goemai, a previously undescribed West Chadic language of Central Nigeria. Her main research interests lie in lexical semantics, in the relationship between language and cognition, and in various aspects of language documentation, in particular: field methodology, the integration of semantics into grammar writing, and in the technological side of documentation. www.hrelp.org /aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=bh

Ethnologue report for Congo [See also SIL publications on the languages of Congo.] Spoken mainly in Brazzaville and the north of Congo. Bouenza and Niari regions, south and southeast from Makabana to the Democratic Republic of the Congo border. www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Congo

Niger-Congo languages spoken in Nigeria The Gur languages are represented by Baatonun, which is spoken on the Western border of the country. Ijoid is a cluster of languages spoken in the southernmost part of Nigeria. There are several languages of the Adamawa group spoken in Nigeria, mostly in Taraba and Adamawa States. www.uiowa.edu /intlinet/unijos/nigonnet/nlp/nigercon.htm

Zimbabwe: Languages Of those, 19 are living languages and 1 is a second language with no mother tongue speakers. Shona is the dominant African language of Zimbabwe and is understood by a considerable number. The sign language used in schools and that used by adults outside is different. www.servus.at /argezim/languages.htm

ISCA Paper Together with several neighbouring languages, it is classified as Mambiloid and therefore part of the North Bantoid branch of Bantoid (Blench 1993). What might once have been seen as two different languages, each with its own inherent dialect variation, then, came to be regarded as two dialect clusters of one language through a shift of perceived ethnic identity. Again, this is not conclusive evidence, but it does suggest the possibility of two languages converging needs to be considered. lucy.ukc.ac.uk /dz/connell/roots/roots.html

Foundation For Endangered Languages Issue 23. The Panawa (Bujiyel) language forms part of the ‘Jere cluster’ and is in turn part of the Northern Jos group of the East Kainji languages spoken north of the town of Jos in Central Nigeria. The language groups in and around Benue-Plateau State. The Tunzu (Duguza) language is an East Kainji language spoken northeast of Jos town in Central Nigeria. www.ogmios.org /236.htm

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Benue-Congo pt. 3 You have reached the third page of Benue-Congo languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana. Zulu is one of the official languages of South Africa; it is also spoken in Lesotho, Malawi, and Swaziland. Languages on this page so far are Tswa-Ronga, Tswana, Urohima, Venda, Xhosa, and Zulu. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/benucg3h.htm

Emory University: Linguistic Anthropology: Bemba A Linguistic Profile The Bantu language family is a branch of the Benue-Congo family, which is a branch of the Niger-Congo family, which is a branch of Niger-Kordofanian. Language purists express concern over this "corruption" of Bemba and the rise of the high prestige urban variety. Because of the political importance of the Bemba kingdom and the extensive reach of the Bemba language, Bemba was targeted as a major language for the production of religious and educational materials in the early 1900s. www.anthropology.emory.edu /FACULTY/ANTDS/Bemba/profile.html

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Benue-Congo, pt. 1 updated 4-1-2003 Ibibio (Niger-Kordofanian) belongs to the Bantoid sub-branch of the Benue- Congo sub-branch of the Niger-Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian family of languages. updated 4-2-2004 Benga (Niger-Kordofanian) belongs to the Northwest Bantu sub-branch of the Strict Bantu sub-branch of the Bantoid sub-branch of the Benue-Congo sub-branch of the Niger-Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian family of languages. updated 3-28-2003 Bamun (Niger-Kordofanian) belongs to the Eastern Grassfields sub-branch of the Bantoid sub-branch of the Benue-Congo sub-branch of the Niger-Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian family of languages. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/benucg1h.htm

African languages: Niger-Kordofanian The Adamawa-Eastern branch, to which Banda, Zande, and Sango belong, is composed of a number of languages spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon, and an area north of the Bantu territory to Sudan. The Mande group consists of languages prevalent in the Niger valley, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, such as Mende in Liberia and Malinke in Mali. The Kwa languages, spoken chiefly in Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Nigeria, and Liberia, include Ewe, Yoruba, Igbo, Nupe, Bini, Ashanti, and possibly Ijo (which is sometimes considered a separate branch). www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0856502.html

Definition of IsiZulu Zulu is an agglutinative language which is part of the Nguni subfamily of the Bantu family of languages. Zulu is the most spoken language in South Africa and became one of South Africa's 11 official languages at the end of apartheid. The known history of the language is limited, but evidence of the language exists from the sixteenth century. www.wordiq.com /definition/IsiZulu

Information on Tarok Longtau (1991) described Tarok as a Benue-Congo language which is almost completely submerged in a sea of Chadic languages. Submitted to the Department of Languages and Linguistics, University of Jos, in partial fulfillment for the award of the B.A. (Hons.) in Linguistics. This ensemble includes as many as 150 languages, many of which are barely documented and membership of many of these groupings remains impressionistic. www.uiowa.edu /intlinet/unijos/nigonnet/nlp/tarok.htm

Benue-Congo languages --  Encyclopædia Britannica The Bantu languages form a subgroup of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Its 700 languages are spoken from eastern Nigeria across the rest of central, eastern, and southern Africa. a family of languages of Africa, which in terms of the number of languages spoken, their geographic extent, and the number of speakers is by far the largest language family in Africa. www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=214899

Web resources for Benue-Congo languages Transitions in Izere nominal morphology and implications for the analysis of Plateau languages (PDF) by Roger M. Blench, 2000. A dictionary of Ogbà, an Igboid language of southern Nigeria (PDF) compiled by the Ogba Language Committee, 2005. Foot structure in the Ibibio verb by Akinbiyi Akinlabi, Rutgers University, and Eno E. Urua, University of Uyo, Nigeria, 2003. goto.glocalnet.net /maho/webresources/benuecongo.html

Kidlink: Angola's Aboriginal Languages KONGO (KIKONGO, KIKOONGO, CONGO, CABINDA) 1,144,000 in Angola (1990), 13% of the population (1990 WA); 1,000,000 in Zaïre (1986 UBS); 3,217,000 in all countries (1991 UBS). The number of languages listed for Angola is 41. Other related languages, dialects, ethnic, or alternate names: Amboim (Mbuiyi), Kibala (Quibala), Lengue (Quilengue), Ngage, Dembo of Cacuta Caenda, Ngengu, Bondo, Quembo, Mussende, Makamba (Macamba). www.kidlink.org /kie/africa/angola/languages.html

Untitled Document While languages like Standard Yoruba may provide justification for the claim that loanword adaptation is solely governed by principles of phonology, this paper presents evidence from two Benue-Congo languages showing that epenthesis can be conditioned by phonology and morpho-syntax. As is well known, loanwords enter a borrowing language with structures that may not be acceptable to that language. Coda consonants are however not acceptable; consequently, a vowel is inserted after an unsyllabifiable coda, turning it into the onset of the epenthetic-vowelled syllable. www.ohiou.edu /alta/orie1.htm

LINGUIST List 6.1144: V-initial languages In the Cross River languages of Nigeria, most nouns are V-initial; in some of these languages, virtually all nouns are. The following languages were cited in the responses. On the basis of this admittedly unscientific sample, I would therefore suggest the following conclusions: (1) Languages in which 40% or more of nouns are V-initial are not exceedingly rare, but they do not appear to be at all common. www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/6/6-1144.html

Reference.com/Web Search/Benue-Congo The Benue - Congo group of languages constitutes the largest branch of the... You have reached the second page of Benue - Congo languages, which is just one... Benue - Congo prosodic phonology and morphology in optimality theory. www.reference.com /search?q=Benue-Congo

SILEWP 2001-002 Summary We endeavored to obtain a complete sample of the languages in which the sound is attested in order to ensure the accuracy of our typological claims. It is found in three of the four major African language families, but it likely cannot be traced back to the proto language of any of these families. This paper documents the geographic and genetic distributions of the labial flap. www.sil.org /silewp/2001/002

APPENDIX A:_LANGUAGE CODES In the case of the modern and the older forms of some languages, the initial letters of each part of the language name were used to form the code. Where one spoken language is written in two different sets of characters, both written languages were included in the list. Exceptions were necessary for some languages because they share the same three initial letters, e.g. www.ifla.org /VI/3/p1996-1/appx_a.htm

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