East Kwa (in some older classifications)

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East Kwa is an older linguistic classification term that referred to what are now more commonly known as the Volta–Niger languages, a branch of the Niger-Congo language family spoken in parts of West Africa.

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East Kwa (in some older classifications) canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical linguistic term
linguistic classification
belongsToMacroFamily Atlantic–Congo languages
branchOf Niger–Congo language family
classificationBasis lexical similarities
morphosyntactic features
phonological features
contrastedWith West Kwa (older classification)
field African linguistics
historical linguistics
hasAlternativeName East Kwa subgroup
Eastern Kwa
hasMemberGroup Akokoid languages
Edoid languages
Gbe languages
Idomoid languages
Igboid languages
Nupoid languages
Yoruboid languages
hasModernName Volta–Niger languages
languageFamily Niger–Congo
partOf Kwa languages (older classification)
reclassifiedAs Volta–Niger branch
linked to: Volta–Niger
refersTo Volta–Niger languages
region West Africa
spokenIn Benin
Ghana
Nigeria
Togo
status obsolete classification term
subgroupOf Niger–Congo language family
supersededBy Volta–Niger classification
timePeriodOfUse mid-20th century
usedBy 20th-century Africanist linguists
usedIn older linguistic classifications

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Volta–Niger languages alsoKnownAs East Kwa (in some older classifications)