niger-kordofanian
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1. the family of languages that includes most of the languages spoken in Africa south of the Sahara; the majority of them are tonal languages but there are important exceptions (e.g., Swahili or Fula) (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | natural language, tongue, |
| definition | : | a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | kordofanian, |
| definition | : | a group of languages spoken in the relatively small Kordofan area of the south Sudan (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | niger-congo, |
| definition | : | a family of African language spoken in west Africa (noun.communication) |
| domain category | : | swahili, |
| definition | : | the most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa (noun.communication) |
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