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- It is generally considered to be the world's largest language family in terms of the number of distinct languages, just ahead of Austronesian, although this is complicated by the ambiguity about what constitutes a distinct language; the number of named Niger–Congo languages listed by Ethnologue is 1,540.
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It is generally considered to be the world's largest language family in terms of the number of distinct languages, just ahead of Austronesian, although this is complicated by the ambiguity about what constitutes a distinct language; the number of named Niger–Congo languages listed by Ethnologue is 1,540.
Niger-Congo languages, a family of languages of Africa, which in terms of the number of languages spoken, their geographic extent, and the number of speakers is by far the largest language family in Africa.
How many languages are there in the Niger-Congo language family and how many people speak these languages? Learn more about its structure and writing.
There are over 181 million speakers of Niger-Congo languages. The family is divided into three main groups: Mande, Atlantic-Congo and Kordofanian of which 180 million are Mande or Atlantic-Congo speakers and 200,000 are Kordofanian speakers.
Niger-Congo languages, Family of some 1,400 languages of Africa. All of these are considered to be distinct languages and not simply dialects. The named dialects of these languages number many thousands more, not to mention the variant names for those languages and dialects.
2.3 Niger-Congo. The great majority of languages in sub-Saharan Africa are members of the Niger-Congo family. Its 1,538 languages make it the world’s largest language family, and only the Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan language families have more speakers than Niger-Congo.
Nov 29, 2018 · Niger-Congo languages dominate sub-Saharan Africa, and the family constitutes one of the world’s largest referential language groups, with around fifteen hundred languages. The precise composition of Niger-Congo is not settled.
