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  2. Zaire - Wikipedia

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    Zaire, [c] officially the Republic of Zaire, [d] was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 18 May 1997. Located in Central Africa, it was, by area, the third-largest country in Africa after Sudan and Algeria, and the 11th-largest country in the world from 1965 to 1997.

  3. Afroasiatic languages - Wikipedia

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    The so-called "Nisba" is a suffix used to derive adjectives from nouns and, in Egyptian, also from prepositions. [200] It is found in Egyptian, Semitic, and possibly, in some relic forms, Berber. [201] The suffix has the same basic form in Egyptian and Semitic, [200] taking the form -i(y) in Semitic and being written -j in Egyptian. The Semitic ...

  4. List of renamed places in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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    Map of the Belgian Congo, 1914. This is a list of place names of towns and cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which were subsequently changed after the end of Belgian colonial rule. Place names of the colonial era tended to have two versions, one in French and one in Dutch, reflecting the two main languages of Belgium. Many of these ...

  5. Luganda - Wikipedia

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    Ganda or Luganda [4] (/ l uː ˈ ɡ æ n d ə / loo-GAN-də; [5] Oluganda [oluɡâːndá]) [6] is a Bantu language spoken in the African Great Lakes region. It is one of the major languages in Uganda and is spoken by more than 5.56 million Baganda [7] and other people principally in central Uganda, including the country's capital, Kampala.

  6. Congo - Wikipedia

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    The Congo River forms much of the border between these two countries. The Congo Basin comes from the river. Congo or The Congo may refer to: Congo River, in central Africa; Congo Basin, the sedimentary basin of the river; Democratic Republic of the Congo, the larger country to the southeast, sometimes referred to as "Congo-Kinshasa"

  7. Bantu languages - Wikipedia

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    Northwest Bantu is more divergent internally than Central Bantu, and perhaps less conservative due to contact with non-Bantu Niger–Congo languages; Central Bantu is likely the innovative line cladistically. Northwest Bantu is not a coherent family, but even for Central Bantu the evidence is lexical, with little evidence that it is a ...

  8. Niger–Congo languages - Wikipedia

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    Niger–Congo is a hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. [1] It unites the Mande languages, the Atlantic–Congo languages (which share a characteristic noun class system), and possibly several smaller groups of languages that are difficult to classify.

  9. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    -ema (Suffix of Frisian origin, given by Napoleon Bonaparte who used suffixes like these to keep a record of people's origins within the Netherlands) [citation needed]-ems [citation needed]-ėnas (Lithuanian) "son of" [citation needed]-enko , -enka/-anka "son of" [citation needed]