Niger-Congo family

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

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:language_family
gptkbp:alternativeName	gptkb:Niger–Congo_languages
gptkbp:class	gptkb:Joseph_Greenberg
gptkbp:glottologCode	nige1239
gptkbp:ISO639-3	nic
gptkbp:language	over 1,500
gptkbp:largestBranch	gptkb:Atlantic-Congo
gptkbp:linguisticFeature	agglutinative morphology noun class system tonal languages
gptkbp:majorityLanguageFamilyIn	gptkb:Angola gptkb:Cameroon gptkb:Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo gptkb:Ghana gptkb:Ivory_Coast gptkb:Kenya gptkb:Mozambique gptkb:Nigeria gptkb:Senegal gptkb:Tanzania gptkb:Uganda
gptkbp:notableLanguage	gptkb:Akan gptkb:Fula gptkb:Shona gptkb:Wolof gptkb:Xhosa gptkb:Zulu gptkb:Ewe gptkb:Kinyarwanda gptkb:Lingala gptkb:Bemba Igbo Swahili Yoruba
gptkbp:numberOfSpeakers	over 700 million
gptkbp:origin	gptkb:West_Africa
gptkbp:region	gptkb:Sub-Saharan_Africa
gptkbp:subfamily	gptkb:Atlantic-Congo gptkb:Volta–Niger gptkb:Benue–Congo gptkb:Kordofanian gptkb:Kwa gptkb:Mande gptkb:Gur gptkb:Adamawa-Ubangi Bantu
gptkbp:writingSystem	gptkb:Latin_script gptkb:N'Ko_script Arabic script
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Pana
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Niger-Congo family