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    NigerCongo is a hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. It unites the Mande languages, the Atlantic–Congo languages...
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  • Proto-NigerCongo is the hypothetical reconstructed proto-language of the proposed NigerCongo language family. Unlike Nilo-Saharan, the NigerCongo language...
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    noun class systems and form the core of the NigerCongo family hypothesis. They comprise all of NigerCongo apart from Mande, Dogon, Ijoid, Siamou, Kru...
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    language families, among which the largest are: NigerCongo, which include the large Atlantic-Congo and Bantu branches in West, Central, Southeast and...
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    The Volta–Niger family of languages, also known as West Benue–Congo or East Kwa, is one of the branches of the NigerCongo language family, with perhaps...
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    three major African language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan and NigerCongo. Nigeria also has several as-yet unclassified languages, such as Centúúm...
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    culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic, Khoisan, Niger-Congo, and Nilo-Saharan populations. The official population count of the various...
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    Ocean. The Niger is the third-longest river in Africa, exceeded by the Nile and the Congo River. Its main tributary is the Benue River. The Niger has different...
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    North Atlantic languages) of West Africa are a major subgroup of the NigerCongo languages. The Atlantic languages are spoken along the Atlantic coast...
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    Volta–Congo is a major branch of the Atlantic–Congo family. It includes all the Niger-Congo languages and subfamilies except the families of the erstwhile...
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