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	AFRICAN LANGUAGES, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Languages of the Berber branch of the Hamito-Semitic family are spoken by a substantial portion of the population of Morocco, Algiers, and Tunisia; by scattered groups elsewhere in North Africa; and along the southern fringes of the Sahara Desert in western Africa.
		Languages of the Chari-Nile branch are spoken in the northern part of Chad, in the Sudan, in much of Uganda and Kenya, and in the northeastern corner of the Congo Republic.
		The Nubian alphabet was derived from that of the Coptic language.
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	Encyclopedia: Niger-Congo languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Wolof is a language spoken in Senegal, The Gambia, and Mauritania.
		The Dogon languages are spoken by the Dogon in Mali.
		The Nyabwa (or Nyaboa) language is a Kru language spoken in Côte dIvoire.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Niger_Congo-languages (3354 words)

	Kordofanian languages - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Several Kordofanian languages are spoken in the Nuba hills of Kordofan, in Sudan.
		The "Tumtum" or Kadu languages were formerly considered Kordofanian, but are now normally excluded (since Schadeberg 1981c), and widely seen as Nilo-Saharan.
		Kordofanian and Niger-Congo: an evaluation of the evidence (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roger_blench/Niger-Congo%20reconstruction/Kordofanian%20and%20Niger-Congo.pdf).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Kordofanian_languages (251 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - African Languages
		Of these, the Kordofanian languages number only 31, all with small populations; they are found in a small area of the Nuba hills in southern Sudan, surrounded by languages of the Nilo-Saharan family and by Arabic.
		North of the Bantu language area, in the north of the Republic of the Congo and adjacent territory, is a branch of the Volta-Congo subfamily, the North branch.
		Its largest branches are Zande and Ngbandi languages; an Ngbandi-based creole known as Sango is widely used as a lingua franca in the Central African Republic, and is growing in importance.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761565449___6/African_Languages.html (631 words)

	African languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Benue-Congo includes the huge Bantu group of hundreds of tongues found throughout central and S Africa (see Bantu languages), as well as such non-Bantu languages as Tiv, Jukun, and Efik, which are spoken in Nigeria and Cameroon.
		All of the Khoisan languages appear to use tones to distinguish meanings, and the Khoikhoi languages and some of the San languages inflect the noun to show case, number, and gender.
		Swahili, a Bantu tongue of the Niger-Kordofanian stock, was written before the European conquest of Africa (see Swahili language), and Vai, a language belonging to the Mande subdivision of Niger-Congo, employs an indigenous script developed in the 19th cent.
	www.bartleby.com /65/af/Africanlng.html (1428 words)

	Niger-Kordofanian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Niger-Kordofanian language family was proposed by Joseph Greenberg in his 1963 book Languages of Africa, originally under the name 'Congo-Kordofanian'.
		It was the consequence of the addition of Kordofanian as a branch coordinate to the previously established Niger-Congo family.
		However, the Kordofanian languages have not been demonstrated to be more distantly related than other branches of Niger-Congo, and recent classifications have placed them within that family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Niger-Kordofanian_languages (113 words)

	Kordofanian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1963 they were grouped together with the Niger-Congo languages by Joseph Greenberg, forming the Niger-Kordofanian languages.
		The Kordofanian languages have not been shown to be more distantly related to Niger-Congo than some other branches, however, and today they are usually subsumed under Niger-Congo and considered one of the first families to branch off, along with Mande.
		The "Tumtum" or Kadu languages were formerly considered Kordofanian, but are now normally excluded (since Schadeberg 1981c), and widely seen as Nilo-Saharan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kordofanian_languages (335 words)

	Niger-Kordofanian languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Languages of Ghana Ethnologue's information on the languages of Ghana, including Ewe.
		Encyclopedia.com: Bantu Languages Includes information on individual Bantu languages and where they are spoken as well as general characteristics of this language family.
		Dschang Syllable Structure Scholarly paper on an aspect of the phonetics of Dschang, one of the Bamileke languages.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Niger-Kordofanian_languages.html (323 words)

	African languages — FactMonster.com
		Historically the term refers to the languages of sub-Saharan Africa, which do not belong to a single family, but are divided among several distinct linguistic stocks.
		These languages are spoken in all parts of the continent, from the extreme south up to the territory of the Afroasiatic languages of N Africa.
		Some authorities believe that the languages spoken in the Niger-Kordofanian and Nilo-Saharan families are sufficiently similar to suggest that both stocks had the same ancestor language.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0802671.html (346 words)

	Niger Kordofanian :: Natural : RSS Feeds : Gourt
		It was the consequence of the addition of Kordofanian as a branch coordinate to the previously established Niger-Congo family.
		However, the Kordofanian languages have not been demonstrated to be more distantly related than other branches of Niger-Congo, and recent classifications have placed them within that family.
		Languages On-Line: Bambara - Audio files in RAM format accompanying an introductory and intermediate Indiana University course by Bird, Hutchison, and Kante.
	science.gourt.com /Social-Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Niger-Kordofanian.html (1822 words)

	Nuba languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Kordofanian noun classes have a recognizable affinity with the noun classes of the Bantu languages of central and southern Africa and also with the noun classes of Fulfulde and Wolof from West Africa.
		Languages such as Dilling, Nyimang, Temein and Daju have been classified as Nilo-Saharan, another vast phylum which includes the majority of Sudanese languages such as Nile Nubian, Fur, Dinka and Ingassana as well as others as far away as Songhai in Mali.
		Map 4 shows roughly where these various language groups are to be found in the Nuba Mountains with (1) Niger-Kordofanian languages in the east, (2a) Nilo-Saharan languages in the northwestern and central areas and (2b) the Kadugli-Krongo group in the southwest.
	www.hf-fak.uib.no /institutter/smi/sa/tan/nuba.html (3814 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Gur & Kwa
		You have reached the page on the Gur and Kwa sub-branches of the Niger-Kordofanian language family, 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.
		Gur and Kwa are two of the sub-branches of the Western Sudanic sub-branch of the Niger- Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian family of languages.
		Yoruba is spoken in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo; it is one of the 4 national languages of Nigeria.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/gurkwah.htm (1177 words)

	Congo-Kordofanian (from language) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The Kordofanian languages are spoken in the Sudan.
		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.
		The area in which these languages are spoken stretches from Dakar, Senegal, at the westernmost tip of the continent, east to Mombasa in Kenya and south to Cape Town, South Africa.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-203633 (864 words)

	Chad - Congo-Kordofanian Languages
		Classified as belonging to the Niger-Congo subfamily of the Congo-Kordofanian family, languages in the Moundang-Toupouri-Mboum groups are spoken by a variety of populations in Mayo-Kebbi and Logone Oriental prefectures.
		Although not spoken as a first language in Chad, Sango has been particularly important because it served as a trade language during the colonial era.
		Bolgo, found with Hajerai and Goula languages in the vicinity of Lake Iro and Lake Mamoun, is spoken by refugee populations.
	www.countrystudies.us /chad/21.htm (763 words)

	Indo-European and Semitic languages – part one
		Songhai, Dinka, Masai, Shilluk, Kanuri), Niger-Kordofanian and Khoisan (languages of the Bushmen and the Hottentots), are related in the genetic sense.
		There also exists a probably more plausible view that the Khoisan languages can be contrasted with all the other languages of the world, and the Zinj languages have more in common with the languages of Australia and south-eastern Asia than with the AA languages (see here and here).
		By the authors of the Tower of Babel, the AA languages are not only separated from IE but also removed from among the Nostratic languages – they are a sister group of not only the whole of the Nostratic languages, but also the Dene-Caucasian languages.
	grzegorj.w.interia.pl /lingwen/iesem1.html (3197 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kordofanian languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Map showing the distribution of Niger-Congo languages The Niger-Congo languages constitute one of the worlds major language families, and Africas largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages.
		The Tagoi language (ŋɔ̹́gɔ̹́lɛ̹́) is a Kordofanian language, closely related to Tegali, spoken near the town of Rashad in southern Kordofan in Sudan, about 12 N, 31 E. It has about 13,000 speakers in total.
		Kordofanian languages Jump to: navigation, search Kadu Languages Western (Tulishi, Keiga, Kanga) Central (Miri, Kadugli, Katcha, Tumma) Eastern (Krongo, Tumtum) See also Nilo-Saharan languages...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kordofanian-languages (814 words)

	Niger-Congo languages - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Niger-Congo languages are probably the largest group of the world in terms of different languages.
		Some of the African languages with the largest number of speakers belong to it.
		Some linguists link the thirty or so Kordofanian languages to the Niger-Congo family, forming a Niger-Kordofanian language family.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Niger-Congo_languages (287 words)

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		The language of the Ethiopian church liturgy, Gecez, gave rise to the Semitic cluster of languages, Amharic, Tigrinya, and Tigre.
		Of the Semitic languages, Arabic was carried beyond its original home in the Arabian Peninsula and spread throughout the Arabian Empire and is spoken across North Africa to the Atlantic coast, and Arabic and Hebrew are used by Muslims and Jews in other parts of the world.
		The Kordofanian languages, found in the Nuba Hills of Kordofan, are related by similarities between their pronominal forms, particularly in the independent pronouns of the singular, and in the noun prefix system.
	web.syr.edu /~mdlattim/e_dox/africa/lang_African.html (6785 words)

	Niger-Congo languages : Niger-Kordofanian languages
		The Niger-Congo languages are probably the largest group of the world in terms of different languages.
		Some of the African Languages with the largest number of speakers belong to it.
		A very large subgroup are the Bantu languages languages which include Swahili or Kiswahili.
	www.fastload.org /ni/Niger-Kordofanian_languages.html (245 words)

	Numbers in Over 5000 Languages
		Their ears may not be attuned to the language; or there may be dialectal variation, or even sound change.
		There is nothing inherent in the language variety to tell us what it is. Linguists sometimes use "language" to refer to a mutually intelligible group of dialects (but note that intelligibility can be partial).
		For non-African languages, a macron indicates length and is indicated :.
	www.zompist.com /numbers.shtml (926 words)

	Ethnologue report for Sudan
		Dialects: They consider themselves to be a Kresh tribe, but their language is not intelligible to the Kresh.
		Little vocabulary in common with other Cushitic languages, but a great deal of the verbal morphology is similar.
		At Jebel Malkan, near the Berta language, south of the Blue Nile, near the Ethiopian border.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Sudan (4938 words)

	LINGUIST List 9.431: State of Comparative Linguistics
		It was this work, from the late '40s to the early '60s that led to his African language classification, his claim that the languages of Africa belong to four large families.
		Second, the nature of the relationship between Kordofanian and Niger-Congo is not clear, whether it is a sister group or simply a highly divergent subgroup.
		The extinct language of Meroe is left unclassified for lack of evidence." In a later paper, in Current Trends in Linguistics, Vol 7: Sub-Saharan Africa, Greenberg adds Meroitic to Nilo-Saharan, confirming the judgment of other scholars whom he cites in the article.
	www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/9/9-431.html (2066 words)

	Kordofanian languages - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		They are usually grouped together with the Niger-Congo languages, forming the Niger-Kordofanian languages.
		Ethnically, their speakers form part of the "Nuba".
		(Handbook of African Languages.) Oxford University Press: London.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /kordofanian_languages.htm (224 words)

	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.
		Swahili is the official language of both Tanzania and Kenya; it is also spoken in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Zaire.
		Swazi is the national language of Swaziland; it is also spoken in South Africa.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/benucg2h.htm (1067 words)

	FREELANG - Classification of the main languages of the world by families
		Please note that the number of speakers is for information only, as it is very hard to know the exact number of speakers of a language.
		For a comprehensive classification of all existing languages, we recommend the website of the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Texas.
		It is the biggest database available on the web concerning languages and their classification.
	www.freelang.net /families (571 words)

	Search: Niger-Kordofanian - Info.co.uk
		The largest language family of sub-Saharan Africa, consisting of the.
		New dictionaries of the Swahili language, both within Swahili and between Swahili and English; print-based dictionaries and multi-media computer...
		A scholarly paper on the Swahili language by Ellen Contini-Morava...
	dpxml.infospace.com /infocom.uk/results?otmpl=dog/webresults.htm&qkw=Niger-Kordofanian&CMP=KNC-3LS480536328&infoad=1 (241 words)

	WORLD ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Chad - Congo-Kordofanian Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		These languages may be divided into seven subgroups: Moundang, Toupouri, Mboum/Laka, Kera, Mongbai, Kim, and Mesme.
		Although not spoken as a first language in Chad, Sango has been particularly important because it served as a trade language during the colonial era.
		Although most Banda-Ngbaka languages are found farther south in Central African Republic, the presence of these subgroups in Chad suggests that Banda-Ngbaka speakers were once much more numerous in Chad.
	encyclopaedic.net /world/chad/21.php (888 words)

	Niger Kordofanian languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Most historical linguists considerthe connection between these two language groups a plausible but still unproven hypothesis.
		Joseph H. Greenberg, The Languages of Africa.Indiana Univ. Press (1966).
		JohnBendor-Samuel, The Niger-Congo Languages — A classification and description of Africa's largest languagefamily, University Press of America (1989).
	www.therfcc.org /niger-kordofanian-languages-141920.html (98 words)

	African languages -> Niger-Kordofanian on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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		An international phonetic alphabet used at Language Line Services, a call center in Seaside, California, where operators speak more than 100 languages.
		Diane Mouradian is Director of Interpreter Services at Language Line Services, a call center in Seaside, California, where operators speak more than 100 languages.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/africanlng_niger-kordofanian.asp (851 words)

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