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	List of Languages
		Language of the Caucasus mountains in the Russian autonomous republic of Karachay-Cherkessia by the Abazins.
		Is a Visayan language spoken in Aklan province in the Philippines.
		Is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara of the Andes.
	www.aboutlanguageschools.com /language/list (4777 words)

	Sesotho language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Sesotho is a language spoken in southern Africa.
		Sesotho (Southern Sotho) is the one of the eleven official languages of South Africa, and one of the two official languages of Lesotho.
		Like all other Bantu languages, linguists may say that the language is "centered around the noun", this is due to the fact that a large number of the words in a Sesotho sentence may change as soon as one of the nouns changes.
	arikah.com /encyclopedia/Southern_Sotho_language (2680 words)

	Southern Bantoid languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the classification of African languages, Southern Bantoid (or South Bantoid) is one of the two branches of the Bantoid subfamily of the Niger-Congo phylum.
		Southern Bantoid, home to the well known and numerous Bantu subfamily, is comprised of 643 languages according to the Ethnologue, making it one of the largest subfamilies in terms of number of languages.
		Southern Bantoid was first introduced in Williamson (1989, based on work presented in Blench [1987]) in a proposal that divided Bantoid in North and South Bantoid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southern_Bantoid_languages (224 words)

	ImagesAfrica
		Languages can be grouped together into families on the basis of similarities of vocabulary and grammatical structure.
		Similarly, the Semitic languages form a sub-group of the Afro-Asiatic language family, and the Bantu languages form a sub-group of the Niger-Congo language family.
		It belongs to the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo language.
	www.imagesafrica.com /html/languages.htm (1100 words)

	Bantoid languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		It comprises all the Bantu languages, and also a number of groups of languages and language isolates: Mambiloid, Fam, Tiba, Dakoid, Tivoid, Ekoid, Mbe, Jarawan, Mamfe, Ring, Momo, Menchum, Mbam-Nkam, Misaje, Essimbi, Tikar, Beboid, and Bantu.
		Internally, they are classified in two groups: Northern Bantoid, which consists of Mambiloid, Fam, Tiba and Dakoid and Southern Bantoid which consists of all the remaining groups.
		Bantoid languages found in Nigeria are - among other less known ones - Mambila, Samba Daka and Tiv.
	www.uiowa.edu /intlinet/unijos/nigonnet/nlp/bantoid.htm (132 words)

	Colony Southern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Southern Rhodesia government referendum, 1922 - The Southern Rhodesia government referendum of October 27, 1922 saw the voters of the colony of Southern Rhodesia by a comfortable majority reject the chance to join the Union of South Africa in favour of establishing a responsible government within the colony.
		Southern Rhodesia general election, 1933 - The Southern Rhodesia general election of September 6, 1933 was the third election since the colony of Southern Rhodesia was granted self-government.
		Southern Africa Geography - Southern Africa Geography Geography of Madagascar - Madagascar is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the eastern coast of southern Africa, east of Mozambique.
	ol42.3rdfaze.info /colonysouthern.html (863 words)

	Xhosa language resources
		Xhosa is the southernmost Bantu language in Africa.
		Xhosa Ndebele Sotho Northern Sotho Southern Sotho Tswana Tsonga and Venda Tsonga Venda Afrikaans...
		Xhosa (IPA: ['k??o?sa]) is one of the official languages of South Africa.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Xhosa.html (1164 words)

	Liaison Language Center \| The Languages of Africa
		Being an official language, it is taught in schools and used for higher education, television, radio, newspapers, literature as well as for legal, political and economic use.
		The French Language was introduced to the African continent during the period of colonialism in the 19
		The French language, however, was already established as a lingua franca for official use and for education and commerce.
	www.liaisonlanguage.com /page13.htm (970 words)

	bantu - Definition, Synonyms, and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Giriama - a Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya
		Tshiluba, Luba - a Bantu language spoken in southeastern Congo
		Mwera - a Bantu language spoken in southern coastal Tanzania
	www.onpedia.com /dictionary/Bantu (395 words)

	Acidophilus notes \| 10:02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In early classifications of African languages, one of the principal criteria used to distinguish different groupings was the languages' use of prefixes to classifiy nouns, or the lack thereof.
		Languages like this have nasal vowels accompanied with complementary distribution between oral and nasal consonants before oral and nasal vowels.
		The Yoruba and Igbo languages, spoken in Nigeria.
	www.acidophiluseffects.com /notes/?title=Niger-Congo_languages (2200 words)

	Kinyarwanda
		Kinyarwanda is the chief spoken language in Rwanda.
		Kinyarwanda is a tonal language of the Bantu language family (Guthrie D61).
		The fact that these ethnic groups share the same language is assumed to be the result of the Bahutu outnumbering the latter two groups (see Bahutu for a more complete historical perspective).
	www.governpub.com /Languages-K/Kinyarwanda.php (559 words)

	Mambila Fricative Vowels
		In Bantoid, at least some of the Grassfields Bantu languages are known to have friction somehow associated with vowels (Elias, Leroy and Voorhoeve, 1984; Fransen, 1995) while Kelly (1974) reports fricative (labiodentalized) vowels in Fang, a Narrow Bantu language spoken in Gabon and Southern Cameroon.
		His is the only study of these languages to provide instrumental evidence of the friction discussed (which didn't occur in all of the dialects looked at), with spectrograms showing clearly that this friction may occur throughout the duration of the nuclear portion of the syllable.
		Mambila comprises a cluster of dialects or languages straddling the Nigeria-Cameroon border.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /dz/ACAL28/ACAL28paper.html (3724 words)

	xhosa_language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Xhosa (IPA:) is one of the official languages of South Africa.
		Almost all languages with clicks are Khoisan languages and the presence of clicks in Xhosa demonstrates the strong historical interaction with its Khoisan neighbors.
		The language represents the most southwestern branch of the Nguni subfamily of the Bantu languages.
	www.virginia-homeimprovementloan.com /wiki/?title=Xhosa_language (905 words)

	Venda language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The majority of Venda speakers live in South Africa (where Venda is an official language), but there are also speakers in Zimbabwe.
		Venda belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo languages.
		Venda is an official language in South Africa.
	arikah.com /encyclopedia/Venda_language (192 words)

	Ethnologue: South Africa
		Language of secondary education and used on the radio.
		(NREBELE, NDZUNDZA, TRANSVAAL NDEBELE, SOUTHERN NDEBELE) [NEL] 588,000 (1995), 1.5% of the population (1995 The Economist).
		A language of secondary education and used on the radio and in newspapers.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Sout.html (1514 words)

	Shikomor Information Center - Shikomor
		Comorian (Shikomor) is the most widely used language on the Comoros (independent islands in the Indian Ocean, off Mozambique and Madagascar).
		It is a close relative of Swahili with a very strong Arabic influence, and is one of the three official languages of the Comoros, next to French and Arabic.
		It is also the language of Udzima wa ya Masiwa, the national anthem of the "moon islands" ("al-qamar" is Arabic for "moon").
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_P_-_S/Shikomor.html (125 words)

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		Giriama : a Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya
		Luba : a Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire
		Mwera : a Bantu language spoken in southern coastal Tanzania
	projects.teknowledge.com /DAML/Corpus/b/Bantu.html (455 words)

	Qwika - similar:Moldovan_language
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		The Romance languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family, comprise all languages that descended from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire.
		The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China with an estimated 140 million native speakers and tens of millions of second-language speakers.
	www.qwika.com /rels/Moldovan_language (1296 words)

	Ethnologue: Cameroon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Northwest, A, Basaa (A.40).
		Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Northwest, A, Lundu-Balong (A.10), Ngoe.
		Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Northwest, A, Lundu-Balong (A.10), Oroko.
	www.fortunecity.com /marina/hornchurch/212/alpha.html (2083 words)

	THE INTEGRITY OF MAMBILOID
		The Mambiloid languages show a relatively large number of cognates, sufficient that even after obvious borrowings are eliminated they may be taken to be genetically related at a low level: i.e.
		An Adamawa element is identifiable in all languages (or divisions) in the group, though it is interesting to note that this is more readily observable in Mambila than in those languages with conceivably greater present-day contact with Adamawa, such as Vute and Nizaa.
		The Mambiloid languages generally exhibit a high degree of phonological similarity though, as with the Mambila cluster itself, it is difficult to identify phonological characteristics that define or are diagnostic of membership of the group.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /VIMS/connell/Integ/Integrity.html (4897 words)

	Ethnologue: Botswana
		Resistance to pressures to adopt Tswana language and culture is led by men.
		Their name for their language is 'Chikwahane'; 'Subiya' is the Tswana name.
		Southern Sotho, Northern Sotho, and Tswana are largely inherently intelligible but have generally been considered separate languages.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Bots.html (1241 words)

	Impressions of Angola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, H, Mbundu (H.20).
		Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, H, Kongo (H.10).
		Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, H, Yaka (H.30).
	groups.msn.com /ImpressionsofAngola/languages.msnw (1169 words)

	Web resources for Bantoid languages
		There are some 150 Bantoid languages, excluding 400-500 Bantu languages.
		The non-Bantu languages are all spoken in Cameroon and Nigeria.
		Beboid language family of Cameroon and Nigeria: location and genetic classification (PDF).
	goto.glocalnet.net /maho/webresources/bantoid.html (1635 words)

	Bantu: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Before the Bantu, the southern half of Africa is believed to have been populated by Khoisan speaking people, today relegated largely to the arid regions around the Kalahari and a few isolated pockets in Tanzania.
		He had analyzed and compared several hundred African languages and found that a group of languages spoken in Southeastern Nigeria were the most closely related to Bantu.
		This was quickly challenged by Malcolm Guthrie who analyzed each Bantu language and found that the most stereotypical were those spoken in Zambia and in the southern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
	proxies.gr /nph-proxy.cgi/010110A/http/www.answers.com/topic/bantu (1049 words)

	swati_language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		It is an official language of Swaziland (along with English) and one of the 11 official languages of South Africa.
		In the very south, especially in towns such as Nhlangano and Hlathikhulu, the language spoken there has many Zulu influences and many Swazis, including these people in the south who speak this way, do not regard it as proper siSwati.
		A detectable feature is the royal style of slow, heavily stressed enunciation which is a feature of the language and has a mellifluous feel.
	www.profreehosting.info /wiki/?title=Swati_language (345 words)

	Ankole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, J, Nyoro-Ganda (J.10).
		Nyankole, Nyoro, and their dialects are considered by some to be one language (78% to 96% lexical similarity).
		The standardization of the western languages (Nyankore-Chiga and Nyoro-Tooro) is called 'RuNyakitara', and is taught at the University.
	www.flw.com /languages/ankole.htm (100 words)

	Web resources for Niger-Congo languages
		There are some 1000-1500 Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian) languages spoken from western Africa via eastern Africa to southern Africa.
		The Niger-Congo languages: a classification and description of Africa's largest language family.
		On the manifestation of stress in African languages (PDF).
	goto.glocalnet.net /maho/webresources/nigercongo.html (291 words)

	Northern Sotho Information Center - Northern Sotho
		Northern Sotho, or "Sesotho sa Leboa", is one of the official languages of South Africa, and is spoken by 4,208,980 people (2001 Census Data), mostly in the provinces of Gauteng, Limpopo Province and Mpumalanga.
		The Northern Sotho language has historically been largely based on the dialect Sepedi.
		Northern Sotho is one of the so-called Bantu languages, belonging to the Niger-Congo language family.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_M_-_O/Northern_Sotho.html (113 words)

	afritopic-languages
		Data accuracy estimate: A2, B. The number of languages listed for Nigeria is 515.
		Of those, 505 are living languages, 2 are second languages without mother tongue speakers, and 8 are extinct.
		Classification: Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Tivoid.
	www.afritopic.com /afritopic-languages.htm (2029 words)

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