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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.
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The low number of Defaka speakers, coupled with the fact that other languages dominate the region where Defaka is spoken, edges the language near extinction on a year-to-year basis. It is generally classified in an Ijoid branch of the Niger–Congo family. [3] However, the Ijoid proposal is problematic.
An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native people, it becomes an extinct language . UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct": [ 1 ]
Nding is a critically endangered language according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger Nding is a (critically) endangered [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family of Kordofan , Sudan .
Logol is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger Logol , or Lukha , is a Niger–Congo language in the Heiban family spoken in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan , Sudan .
The Volta–Niger family of languages, also known as West Benue–Congo or East Kwa, is one of the branches of the Niger–Congo language family, with perhaps 70 million speakers. Among these are the most important languages of southern Nigeria , Benin , Togo , and southeast Ghana : Yoruba , Igbo , Bini , and Gbe .
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