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Bantoid languages

Index Bantoid languages

Bantoid is a putative major division of the Benue–Congo branch of the Niger–Congo language family. [1]

16 relations: Atlantic–Congo languages, Bantu languages, Benue–Congo languages, Cameroon, Dakoid languages, Ethnologue, Fam language, Joseph Greenberg, Mambiloid languages, Ndoro language, Niger–Congo languages, Nigeria, Southern Bantoid languages, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Languages of Africa, Tikar language.

Atlantic–Congo languages

The Atlantic–Congo languages are a major division constituting the core of the Niger–Congo language family of Africa, characterised by the noun class systems typical of the family.

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Bantu languages

The Bantu languages (English:, Proto-Bantu: */baⁿtʊ̀/) technically the Narrow Bantu languages, as opposed to "Wide Bantu", a loosely defined categorization which includes other "Bantoid" languages are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Benue–Congo languages

Benue–Congo (sometimes called East Benue–Congo) is a major subdivision of the Niger–Congo language family which covers most of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Cameroon

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Dakoid languages

The Dakoid languages are a small putative group of languages spoken in Taraba and Adamawa states of eastern Nigeria.

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Ethnologue

Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.

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Fam language

Fam is a Bantoid language of Nigeria.

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Joseph Greenberg

Joseph Harold Greenberg (May 28, 1915 – May 7, 2001) was an American linguist, known mainly for his work concerning linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.

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Mambiloid languages

The twelve Mambiloid languages are a branch of Benue–Congo languages spoken by the Mambila and related people in Nigeria and Cameroon.

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Ndoro language

Ndoola (Ndoro) is a Bantoid language of Nigeria, with a couple thousand speakers in Cameroon.

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Niger–Congo languages

The Niger–Congo languages constitute one of the world's major language families and Africa's largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers and number of distinct languages.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.

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Southern Bantoid languages

Southern Bantoid (or South Bantoid), also known as Wide Bantu or Bin, is a branch of the Benue–Congo languages of the Niger–Congo language family.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically, the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara.

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The Languages of Africa

The Languages of Africa is a 1963 book of essays by Joseph Greenberg, in which the author sets forth a genetic classification of African languages that, with some changes, continues to be the most commonly used one today.

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Tikar language

Tikar is a Benue–Congo language of uncertain classification spoken in Cameroon by the Bankim, Ngambe and related Tikar peoples as well as by the Bedzan Pygmies.

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Bantoid, Bantoid language.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantoid_languages

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