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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.
The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
A Wolof speaker, recorded in Taiwan. Wolof (/ ˈ w oʊ l ɒ f / WOH-lof; [2] Wolof làkk, وࣷلࣷفْ لࣵکّ) is a Niger–Congo language spoken by the Wolof people in much of the West African subregion of Senegambia that is split between the countries of Senegal, The Gambia and Mauritania.
Negro denotes 'black' in Spanish and Portuguese, derived from the Latin word niger, meaning 'black', which itself is probably from a Proto-Indo-European root *nekw-, "to be dark", akin to *nokw-, 'night'. [4] [5] Negro was also used for the peoples of West Africa in old maps labelled Negroland, an area stretching along the Niger River.
Map showing the distribution of Niger–Congo languages. Light green is the Kwa subfamily. The Kwa languages , often specified as New Kwa , are a proposed but as-yet-undemonstrated family of languages spoken in the south-eastern part of Ivory Coast , across southern Ghana , and in central Togo .
Idoma (Ìdɔ́mà) is the second official language spoken in Benue State in southeast-central Nigeria, by approximately one million people (2020 estimate). [1] The Idoma language is made up of the dialects of Agatu, Edumoga, Otukpo, Otukpa, Orokam, Akpa Agila, Utonkon, Igede, Etilo, Iyala.
Pronunciation English pronoun Kissi example English translation ya /ja/ me o tyo ya lɔ. yɔŋgu ya ho. / k'ya ho. He's going to beat me. Give me that. nɔm /nɔm/ you y tyo nɔm lɔ. I'm going to beat you. ndu /ndu/ Hhim /her y tyo ndu lɔ. o tyo ndu pilɛ lɔ. I'm going to beat him / her. He's going to beat himself. na /na/ us o tyo na lɔ.
The Senufo languages constitute their own branch of the Atlantic–Congo sub-family of the Niger–Congo languages. Anne Garber estimates the total number of Senufos at some 1.5 million; the Ethnologue, based on various population estimates, counts 2.7 million. [year needed]