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Yoruba language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The native tongue of the Yoruba people, it is spoken, among other languages, in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo and traces of it are found among 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. Yoruba is an isolating, tonal language with SVO syntax. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yoruba_language

African languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 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. 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). 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. www.bartleby.com /65/af/Africanlng.html

Kru languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Kru languages belong to the Niger-Congo language family and are spoken in the area ranging from the south-east of Liberia to the east of Côte d'Ivoire. Westerman, Diedrich Hermann (1952) Languages of West Africa (Part II). The name Kru is of unknown origin and is according to Westermann (1952) 'used by Europeans to denote a number of tribes speaking related dialects, and the dialects as a whole'. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kru_languages

ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Niger-Congo Languages Nine African languages from the Niger-Congo family are spoken in Gambia.... Niger-Congo Languages, great phylum containing over 1,400 languages, more than any other phylum in the world, spoken by close to 400 million... The largest African languages family comprising over 1,400 languages, this family includes several subfamilies, including Kordofanian, Mande, and... au.encarta.msn.com /Niger-Congo_Languages.html

A Survey Report for the Bantu Languages The conventional answer says that a language tends to be the standard variety, be written, have more speakers, have some form of offical status, have prestige, and not be intelligible to speakers of other “languages”. They, the majority, see (1) the northwestern languages (those of Zones A, B, C, and parts of D and H) as being clearly distinct from the rest; and (2) thereafter, a split in the rest between western (Zones H, K, R, sometimes L and parts of M) and eastern languages. According to the most recent estimate (Grimes 2000) the world has 6,809 languages, of which 2,058, approximately 30%, are spoken in Africa (an additional 44 are described as “extinct”). www.sil.org /silesr/2002/016/SILESR2002-016.htm

Foundation For Endangered Languages Issue 26. The languages spoken on the Dogon Plateau and adjacent areas in northern Mali are generally known to outsiders as ‘Dogon’, but this term is not used by individual groups. Language isolates are extremely rare in the world, and those in Eurasia, such as Basque and Burushaski, have received their fair share of scholarly attention. In addition to the spoken language, a sign language exists in Uluban and related hamlets, which is used to communicate with a small number of deaf individuals. www.ogmios.org /266.htm

SIL Bibliography: Language classification McElhanon, Kenneth A. "Lexicostatistics and the classification of Huon Peninsula languages." McElhanon, Kenneth A. A classification of the languages of the Morobe province, Papua New Guinea, with the linguistic situation of individual villages. Huttar, George L. Review of: Languages of the world, no. 10, by Author unknown. www.ethnologue.com /show_subject.asp?code=LCL

Bantu languages Bantu languages are spoken in South Cameroon, and in the south-eastern region of Nigeria close the Cameroonian Border, in Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa. Bantu is a language family that belongs to the Niger-Congo group. Judging from the history of Swahili, some linguists believe that Bantu languages are on a continuum from purely tonal languages to languages with no tone at all. www.kiwipedia.com /bantu-languages.html

Niger-Congo languages --  Encyclopædia Britannica These languages were formerly classified as part of the Kordofanian group within the Niger-Congo language family, but they are now widely believed to form a subgroup within the Nilo-Saharan language family. The Kordofanian languages are spoken in the Sudan. 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 /eb/article-9109810?tocId=9109810

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Ethnologue report for Nigeria Niger State, Borgu LGA; Kebbi State, Bagudo LGA, from Senji in the north to Kenugbe and Kaoje, 150 km to the south and Demmo, 50 km to the east, 35 villages. Niger State, Borgu and Agwara LGAs, just west of the Niger River and north of the Kainji Lake National Park; and Kebbi State, east of the Niger River from the Yelwa area south to Ngaski and Nasko. Of those, 510 are living languages, 2 are second language without mother-tongue speakers, and 9 are extinct. www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Nigeria

Swati language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is an official language of Swaziland (along with English) and one of the 11 official languages of South Africa. Swati (also known as siSwati and Swazi) is a Bantu language spoken in Swaziland and South Africa. It has 1.5 million speakers and is taught in schools. www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Swati_language

Languages : Niger-Congo Family Most of the Niger-Congo languages have prefixes and suffixes to qualify nouns and verbs as well as words that agree with them. The southern languages have tones which are used partially for meaning but mostly for grammar. Migrations took the languages to eastern and southern Africa. www.krysstal.com /langfams_nigercongo.html

Niger-Congo languages spoken in Nigeria 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. The Gur languages are represented by Baatonun, which is spoken on the Western border of the country. www.uiowa.edu /intlinet/unijos/nigonnet/nlp/nigercon.htm

Language Log: Naked languages Languages with just a whisper of inflection or a mere handful of tonally-distinguished minimal pairs are okay. I first started asking people this question in 1996, and since then, I have found that there are four kinds of language like this: 1) Polynesian 2) some languages of Southeast Asia 3) a few Mande languages in West Africa and 4) some creoles. If you ask me, a natural language that has become neither like Greek nor like Thai after all this time is one that has some skeletons in its closet. itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000204.html

Kamba Kamba (Kakamba) is of the Niger-Congo family of languages spoken by a total of about 2,500,000 in Kenya. Specifically, it is a Central Bantu language of the Kamba people who inhabit the regions of the Mbooni Hills (the place of the buffalo), in the Ukamba highlands. It is spoken in the South Central, Machakos and Kitui districts of Kenya. www.flw.com /languages/kamba.htm

AEGiS: Uganda Languages English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic. U.S. citizens living in or planning to visit Uganda should be aware of threats to their safety from insurgent groups, particularly in the northern region near the border with Sudan, and the western region near the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. www.aegis.com /countries/uganda.html

Niger-Congo languages - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Niger-Congo languages It is divided into groups and subgroups; the most widely spoken Niger-Congo languages are Swahili (spoken on the east coast), the members of the Bantu group (southern Africa), and Yoruba (Nigeria). It includes about 1,000 languages and covers a vast area south of the Sahara desert, from the west coast to the east, and down the east coast as far as South Africa. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Niger-Congo%20languages

MSN Encarta - Search Results - tonal Most languages in the Niger-Congo family, with the exception of Swahili and Fulfulde, are tonal. Austro-Asiatic Languages, Chinese languages, Native American languages, Niger-Congo language family, pitch accent, Sino-Tibetan languages,... Phonology : tonal languages : Niger-Congo language family: Ogun encarta.msn.com /tonal.html

The Etruscan Decipherment The Niger-Congo prefixes are the hallmark of Niger-Congo languages. It belongs to the Niger-Congo family of languages, and is remotely related to Bantu. This is from Niger-Congo ta which is used to form perfects in many languages including Nyangbo, Santrokofi and Malinke. home.clear.net.nz /pages/gc_dunn/Etruscans.html

Wolof verbs conjugation Wolof is a member of the West Atlantic sub-branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Common to West Atlantic languages are derivitive verbal suffixes, used in Wolof to mark tense, mode, aspect, and negative/affirmative distinctions. Despite the considerable geographic spread of Wolof speakers, the language is relatively unmarked by dialectal differences. www.verbix.com /languages/wolof.shtml

Niger-Congo languages - Wikipedia The Niger-Congo languages are probably the largest group of the world in terms of different languages. A very large subgroup are the Bantu languages which include Swahili or Kiswahili. Some of the African languages with the largest number of speakers belong to it. nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Niger-Congo_languages

Ethnologue report for Niger [See also SIL publications on the languages of Niger.] The western dialect is in western Niger, north and northwest of Niamey and in eastern Mali, Menaka Region. Between Tahoua in central Niger, Agadez in north central Niger, and Ingall in northeast Niger. www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Niger

Phrasebase - Gbaya Language Facts And Information Different from the Gbaya languages in the Niger-Congo family. This is just for fun, base your vote on factors such as ease of learning, ease of pronouncing, the sounds and tones, how appealing it sounds, how effective and convenient it is to communicate in and express what is on your mind. Men and those who have been to school speak Sudanese Arabic as second language for most common topics. www.phrasebase.com /languages/index.php?cat=400

African Languages by Countries Native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population. Afrikaans common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%, indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama. Lingala and Monokutuba (lingua franca trade languages), many local languages and dialects (of which Kikongo is the most widespread). www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/african_languages.htm

Welcome to Berkeley Linguistics He has worked extensively on phonological theory and other aspects of language structure — particularly as concerns the history and description of the Niger-Congo languages of Africa, especially Bantu. His current interests center around phonological theory and the comparative and historical study of the Bantu language family (of about 500 languages) for which he founded the Comparative Bantu On-Line Dictionary (CBOLD), with funding from the National Science Foundation and in collaboration with the Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (CNRS/Université Lyon2). In Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 16:3-39, 1995. www.linguistics.berkeley.edu /people/fac/hyman.html

CNN - Amended resolution of the Oakland Board of Education - Jan. 16, 1997 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Education officially recognizes the existence, and the cultural and historic bases of West and Niger-Congo African Language Systems, and each language as the primary language of many African-American students; and Primary languages are the language patterns children bring to school; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Education hereby commits to earmark District general and special funding as is reasonably necessary and appropriate to enable the Superintendent and her staff to accomplish the foregoing; and www.cnn.com /US/9701/16/black.english/ebonics.amend.html

Mende Reference, Mende is a member of the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages. Copyright © Kenneth Katzner, The Languages of the World, Published by Routledge. Home Products Languages Countries Affiliates Contact Us Site Security Privacy Policy www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Mende.htm

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