The Volta–Niger family of languages, also known as West Benue–Congo or East Kwa, is one of the branches of the Niger–Congo language family, with perhaps...
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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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the Yoruboid languages, a subgroup of the Volta-Niger languages. It was likely spoken in what is now Nigeria and the confluence of the Niger River and Benue...
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member languages, although this is complicated by the ambiguity about what constitutes a distinct language; the number of named Niger–Congo languages listed...
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Igboid languages constitute a branch of the Volta–Niger language family. Williamson and Blench conclude that the Igboid languages form a "language cluster"...
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languages of southern Ivory Coast and to what are now called the Volta–Niger languages of southern Nigeria. Greenberg (1963) added the Kru languages of...
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languages were traditionally placed in the Kwa branch of the Niger–Congo languages, but more recently have been classified as Volta–Niger languages....
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Benue–Congo (sometimes called East Benue–Congo) is a major branch of the Volta-Congo languages which covers most of Sub-Saharan Africa. Central Nigerian (or Platoid)...
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languages comprise the largest demonstrated family of languages in Africa. They have characteristic noun class systems and form the core of the Niger–Congo...
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The Oti–Volta languages form a subgroup of the Gur languages, comprising about 30 languages of northern Ghana, Benin, and Burkina Faso spoken by twelve...
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branch of the Benue–Congo subfamily of the wider Niger–Congo family of languages. All Yoruboid languages are tonal, with most of them having three level...
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In Bendor-Samuel, J. (ed.). The Niger-Congo Languages: A classification and description of Africa's largest language family. Lanham: University Press...
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The Nupoid languages are a branch of Volta–Niger spoken in west-central Nigeria, particularly in southeastern Niger State and northern Kogi State. They...
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of the Dagaare language are also found in Cameroon. The Samu languages of Burkina Faso are Gur languages. Like most Niger–Congo languages, the ancestor...
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Atlantic languages (also the Atlantic languages or North Atlantic languages) of West Africa are a major subgroup of the Niger–Congo languages. The Atlantic...
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Nupe (also known as Anufe, Nupenci, Nyinfe, and Tapa) is a Volta–Niger language of the Nupoid branch primarily spoken by the Nupe people of the North Central...
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one of the Volta–Niger languages. An automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by Müller et al. (2013) grouped Oko within the Idomoid languages. According...
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Ayere–Ahan languages are a pair of languages of southwestern Nigeria, Ayere and Àhàn (or Ahaan), that form an independent branch of the Volta–Niger languages. These...
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The Senufo or Senufic languages (Senoufo in French) comprise around 15 languages spoken by the Senufo in the north of Ivory Coast, the south of Mali and...
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certain provinces from Upper Senegal and Niger were united into a separate colony called the Upper Volta in the French West Africa federation. In 1932...
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Yoruba (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
Yoruba language, a West African language of the Volta–Niger language family Yoruba alphabet, a Latin alphabet used to write in the Yoruba language Yorubaland...
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NOI (category Articles containing Romanian-language text)
politician NOI Techpark, Bolzano, Italy Nupe–Oko–Idoma languages, a subgroup of Volta–Niger languages Noi (album), by Eros Ramazzotti, 2012 Noi the Albino...
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actually related to the Kwa or Volta–Niger languages. However, Blench (2017) classified Ega as a fully Western Kwa language that has borrowed from Kru, Gur...
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Ayere (Uwu) is a divergent Volta–Niger language of Nigeria, closely related only to Ahaan. It is named after Ayere village in Ijumu LGA, Kogi State. The...
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Yoruba. Akpes is generally attributed to the Volta-Congo Branch of the Niger-Congo phylum. The language is commonly referred to as 'Akpes' in literature...
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include the other languages mentioned above. The Idoma language is classified in the Akweya subgroup of the Idomoid languages of the Volta–Niger family, which...
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The Edoid languages are a few dozen languages spoken in Southern Nigeria, predominantly in the former Bendel State. The name Edoid derives from its most...
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State, Southern part of Nigeria in Niger Delta region. It is also spoken in some part of Bayelsa. The Isoko language has close similarities between them...
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Mooré (redirect from Mooré (language))
More or Mossi, is a Gur language of the Oti–Volta branch and one of four official languages of Burkina Faso. It is the language of the Mossi people, spoken...
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