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...

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 70...

two largest languages of Nigeria, Yoruba, and Igbo. Benue–Congo includes the Southern Bantoid group, which is dominated by the Bantu languages, which account...

Atlantic–Congo in that it excludes the Atlantic languages and, in some conceptions, Kru and Senufo. In the infobox at the right, the languages which appear...

major branch of the Benue–Congo language family. It consists of the Northern Bantoid languages and the Southern Bantoid languages, a division which also...

group itself is a branch of the Benue–Congo subfamily of the wider Niger–Congo family of languages. All Yoruboid languages are tonal, with most of them having...

The Cross River or Delta–Cross languages are a branch of the Benue–Congo language family spoken in south-easternmost Nigeria, with some speakers in south-westernmost...

Bendi, Beboid, Grassfields and Tivoid languages. Within the Benue-Congo languages, the expansive Bantu language family which covers much of central and...

might be closest to the (East) Benue–Congo languages (or, equivalently, the most divergent of the Benue–Congo languages). Blench (2012) states that "noun-classes...

division in Nigeria Benue Trough, a major geological formation in Nigeria Benue–Congo languages, a major language group in Africa SS Benue, a Hansa A type...

The forty or so Plateau languages are a tentative group of Benue–Congo languages spoken by 15 million people on the Jos Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Nasarawa...

The Jukunoid languages are a branch of the Benue-Congo languages spoken by the Jukun and related peoples of Nigeria and Cameroon. They are distributed...

169 Niger–Congo languages. This latter group comprises one Senegambian language (Fulfulde), 28 Adamawa languages, and 142 Benue–Congo languages (130 of...

languages are a group of about 60 related languages spoken in west-central Nigeria. They form part of the Central Nigerian (Platoid) branch of Benue–Congo...

The Atlantic–Congo languages make up the largest demonstrated family of languages in Africa. They have characteristic noun class systems and form the core...

Niger-Congo, with a special focus on Benue-Congo. In: Vossen, Rainer and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (eds.). 2020. The Oxford Handbook of African Languages, pp...

The Defoid languages are a proposed branch of the Benue–Congo language family. The name of the group derives from the fact that nearly all of the ethnic...

The Basa language, disambiguated as Basa-Benue, and also called Abacha, Abatsa, ru-Basa, Rubassa, is a Kainji language spoken in central Nigeria, in the...

chapters 7 and 8 in: Twelve Nigerian Languages, ed. by E. Dunstan. Longmans. Williamson, Kay. 1971. The Benue–Congo languages and Ịjọ. In: Current Trends in...

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 River...

influence from vanished Nilo-Saharan languages on Hausa has been proposed. List of Hausa words of likely Benue-Congo origin: Blench, Roger. 2021. The erosion...

classification of Benue–Congo assigned Ekoid to ‘Wide Bantu’ or what would now be called Bantoid, a rather untidy mass of languages lying somehow between...

no speakers remaining. Baissa Fali belongs to the Benue–Congo sub-family of the Niger–Congo languages. Its position within this family remains a matter...

satisfaction that it is a Benue–Congo language, though its placement within Benue–Congo is disputed. Blench (2010) considers it to be Benue–Congo. Boyd (ms), however...

River branch of Benue–Congo. Efik proper has national status in Nigeria and was erroneously made the literary standard of the Ibibio language, though Ibibio...

Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria. In John R. Watters (ed.), East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 59–106. Berlin: Language Science...

River below its junction with the Benue River. Their language belongs to the Benue–Congo branch of the Niger–Congo family. Their ruler, the Àtá, traditionally...

Department of English, University of Jos. Maddieson, I. (1972) The Benue–Congo languages of Nigeria Mimeo, Ibadan. Maddieson, I. (n.d.) Verb-nominal contraction...

Petel" is an unclassified Benue–Congo language of Nigeria., it is mainly spoken in the states of Taraba and Plateau. The Tita language has no existing dialects...

after the above river Cross River languages, a branch of the Benue-Congo languages subgroup of the Niger-Congo languages Cross River (Maine), a tributary...