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Iyive language (281 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Iyive, also referred to as Uive, Yiive, Ndir, Asumbos, is a severely endangered Bantoid language spoken in Nigeria and Cameroon. The ethnic group defined

Kpelle syllabary (166 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for writing the Kpelle language, a member of the Mande group of Niger-Congo languages spoken by about 490,000 people in Liberia and around 300,000 people

Languages of Chad (348 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Chad has two official languages, Arabic and French, and over 120 indigenous languages. A vernacular version of Arabic, Chadian Arabic, is a lingua franca

Carl Meinhof (621 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof (23 July 1857 – 11 February 1944) was a German linguist and one of the first linguists to study African languages. Meinhof

Kay Williamson (787 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

95-l05. Williamson, Kay. 1989. "Niger-Congo Overview". In: The Niger-Congo languages, ed. by John Bendor-Samuel, 3-45. University Press of America. ISBN 0819173754

Diedrich Hermann Westermann (584 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Diedrich Hermann Westermann (June 24, 1875 – May 31, 1956) was a German missionary, Africanist, and linguist. He substantially extended and revised the

Bernd Heine (1,064 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bernd Heine (born 25 May 1939) is a German linguist and specialist in African studies. From 1978 to 2004 Heine held the chair for African Studies at the

Friedrich Müller (linguist) (423 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Friedrich Müller (6 March 1834 – 25 May 1898) was an Austrian linguist and ethnologist who originated the term Hamito-Semitic languages for what are now

Mesakin people (38 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

this minority possibly exceeds 50,000. They speak Ngile and Dengebu, Niger–Congo languages close enough to be considered dialects. Joshua Project v t e

Sigismund Koelle (2,409 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle or Kölle (July 14, 1823 – February 18, 1902) was a German missionary working on behalf of the London-based Church Missionary Society

John Clarke (Baptist missionary) (483 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

John Clarke (1802–1879) was an English Baptist minister and missionary, who served in Jamaica and Fernando Po (an island off the coast of West Africa)

Middle Belt (1,385 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of ethno-linguistic diversity. Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Niger–Congo languages are all spoken, which are three of the primary African language

Ludwig Gerhardt (231 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ludwig Gerhardt (born November 1, 1938, in Halle an der Saale) is a German linguist and Africanist. He is known for his work on various languages of Africa

André Prost (121 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Father André Prost (born 28 August 1903 in Orgelet, Jura; died 24 May 1987 in Bry-sur-Marne) was a French missionary, Africanist, and linguist. As a White

Mama and papa (3,206 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, mama and papa are considered a special case of false cognates. In many languages of the world, sequences of sounds similar to /mama/ and

Liberian English (1,438 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

generally of Kru and Kwa languages but shows up in other neighboring Niger-Congo languages as well as in West African varieties of English more generally,

Carme Junyent (1,300 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Maria Carme Junyent i Figueras (4 February 1955 – 3 September 2023), commonly known as Carme Junyent, was a Catalan linguist. Renowned in her work field

West Chadic languages (673 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

labial–velar consonants /kp/ and /gb/, widespread in Plateau and other Niger-Congo languages but uncommon in Chadic languages, can be found in Ron languages

Bété syllabary (911 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

syllable for example, also means say. Marchese, Lynell (1989). The Niger-Congo Languages: A Classification and Description of Africa's Largest Language Family

Heiban people (63 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

languages group, of the Nuba Mountains, which is in the major family of Niger–Congo languages. Nuba peoples Index: Nuba peoples Joshua Project v t e v t e

Anyi people (791 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

gathered in secret societies. The Agnis language is part of the Niger-Congo languages. Allegedly, there are 250 000 speakers in the Sud-Comöe. Anyi operate

Obviative (1,116 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Obviative markers are used in Africa in some Nilo-Saharan and Niger–Congo languages. Obviation has also been attested in the Northeast Caucasian Ingush

Thilo C. Schadeberg (771 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika, 1986, 425-447. Kordofanian, The Niger-Congo languages 1989, 66-80. with Ridder Samsom, Kiinimacho cha mahali: Kiambishi

Proto-Yoruboid language (1,096 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

existence of the nine-vowel system which is quite widespread in other Niger-Congo languages, for a total of fifteen vowels. The above phonemes exhibited considerable

Losso people (1,047 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Oti-Volta sub-group of languages in the Gur (or Voltaique) group of the Niger-Congo languages. "Losso" is a name used to refer normally to both Lambas and Nawdba

History of the tango (1,873 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the more popular in recent years has been that it came from the Niger–Congo languages of Africa. Another theory is that the word "tango", already in common

Demographics of the Northwest Territories (1,454 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

10= Creole 105 0.26% 12. Dutch 95 0.23% 13. Spanish 90 0.22% 14. Niger-Congo languages 80 0.20% Bantu languages 55 0.14% 15. Yugoslavian languages 60 0

Aterian (2,479 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spread of the Aterian culture and unique linguistic spread of the Niger-Congo languages (e.g., languages of the Atlantic coast in Senegal, Kordofan in Sudan)

Demographics of Prince Edward Island (1,449 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

were: There were also 30 single-language responses for Greek and Niger-Congo languages n.i.e.; 25 for Russian; 20 for Ukrainian; 15 for Finnish, Germanic

Busolwe Public Library (606 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

preservation of the language, which is one of the many endangered Niger–Congo languages in sub-Saharan Africa. Patrons of the BPL consist mainly of students

Mossi people (3,657 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

(1989). Gur. pp. 141–68. Bendor-Samuel, J.T ., ed. (1989). The Niger-Congo Languages. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. Tapsoba, Marie (April

Bubalus Period (1,791 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spread of the Aterian culture and unique linguistic spread of the Niger-Congo languages (e.g., languages of the Atlantic coast in Senegal, Kordofan in Sudan)

Nunavik (3,064 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Other Aboriginal language 35 5. Other non-Aboriginal language 15 6. Arabic 10 6. Creoles 10 6. German 10 6. Portuguese 10 6. Niger-Congo languages 10

Bantu peoples (4,766 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

number just above 200 million was cited in the early 2000s (see Niger-Congo languages: subgroups and numbers of speakers for a 2007 compilation of data

Kirdi (3,372 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

the kirdi peoples speak Afro-Asiatic languages, though some speak Niger-Congo Languages, this depends on the geographic dispersal of the groups, while there

Esan people (3,447 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

PEOPLE". Retrieved 10 July 2021. Bendor-Samuel, John (1989). The Niger Congo languages: a classification and description of Africa's largest language family

Jabo people (2,004 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of their language. Jabo clearly belongs within the Kru family of Niger–Congo languages. For further discussion, see the article Grebo people. A certain

Culture of Africa (5,280 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

four; it is also the largest language family in the world. The Niger-Congo languages inhabit Western, Central, Eastern and Southern Africa this includes

Rhoticity in English (9,394 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

are primarily non-rhotic because of the underlying varieties of Niger-Congo languages that are spoken in that part of West Africa. Rhoticity may exist

Sotho nouns (5,650 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

on some historical words (as is now the case with some non-Bantu Niger–Congo languages which have many Bantu-like nouns but with no productive processes