Niger-Congo

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Niger-Congo

GPTKB entity

Statements (83)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	language family
gptkbp:alternativeName	gptkb:Niger–Congo_languages
gptkbp:class	gptkb:Joseph_Greenberg
gptkbp:dateOfClassification	1963
gptkbp:glottologCode	nige1259
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Niger-Congo
gptkbp:ISO639-3	nic
gptkbp:language	over 1,500
gptkbp:largestCity	gptkb:Akan gptkb:Fula gptkb:Shona gptkb:Zulu Igbo Swahili Yoruba
gptkbp:linguisticFeature	agglutinative morphology noun class system tonal languages
gptkbp:numberOfSpeakers	over 700 million
gptkbp:origin	gptkb:West_Africa
gptkbp:region	gptkb:Sub-Saharan_Africa
gptkbp:spokenIn	gptkb:Angola gptkb:Benin gptkb:Botswana gptkb:Burkina_Faso gptkb:Burundi gptkb:Côte_d'Ivoire gptkb:Cameroon gptkb:Central_African_Republic gptkb:Chad gptkb:Comoros gptkb:Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo gptkb:Equatorial_Guinea gptkb:Gabon gptkb:Ghana gptkb:Guinea gptkb:Ivory_Coast gptkb:Kenya gptkb:Lesotho gptkb:Liberia gptkb:Malawi gptkb:Mali gptkb:Mauritania gptkb:Mozambique gptkb:Namibia gptkb:Niger gptkb:Nigeria gptkb:Republic_of_the_Congo gptkb:Rwanda gptkb:Senegal gptkb:Sierra_Leone gptkb:South_Africa gptkb:Swaziland gptkb:Tanzania gptkb:Togo gptkb:Uganda gptkb:Zambia gptkb:Zimbabwe gptkb:Guinea-Bissau gptkb:Cape_Verde_(minority) gptkb:Eritrea_(minority) gptkb:Madagascar_(minority) gptkb:São_Tomé_and_Príncipe_(minority) gptkb:Somalia_(minority) gptkb:South_Sudan_(minority) gptkb:Sudan_(minority) The Gambia Ethiopia (minority)
gptkbp:subfamily	gptkb:Adamawa–Ubangi gptkb:Benue–Congo gptkb:Atlantic–Congo gptkb:Dogon gptkb:Ijoid gptkb:Kordofanian gptkb:Kwa gptkb:Mande Bantu
gptkbp:writingSystem	gptkb:Latin_script Arabic script
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Akan gptkb:Fante gptkb:Yoruba_language
gptkbp:bfsLayer	4