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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.
This means that the meaning of a word can be altered depending on the tone used when pronouncing it. Igbo has two main tones: high and low. The high tone is usually marked with an acute accent (´) and the low tone is marked with a grave accent (`). For example, the word akwa can mean "cry, egg, cloth, sew" depending on the tone used. If ...
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.
The Ijo languages were traditionally considered a distinct branch of the Niger–Congo family (perhaps along with Defaka in a group called Ijoid). [3] They are notable for their subject–object–verb basic word order, which is otherwise an unusual feature in Niger–Congo, shared only by such distant potential branches as Mande and Dogon.
The modern Igbo alphabet is made up of 36 letters, [3] which includes only a 23-letter set of the ISO basic Latin alphabet minus Q and X, which are not part of Abidịị Igbo. C is not used other than in the digraph 'ch' and proper names. The alphabet uses the dot above on the letter Ṅ, and the dot below on Ị, Ọ and Ụ.
Ewe (Eʋe or Eʋegbe [ɛβɛɡ͡bɛ]) [2] is a language spoken by approximately 5 million people in West Africa, mainly in Ghana and Togo. [1] Ewe is part of a group of related languages commonly called the Gbe languages.
A Mooré speaker speaking Mooré and Dioula, recorded in Taiwan.Video 1 min:23 sec, 2018. Mooré, also called More or Mossi, [2] [3] is a Gur language of the Oti–Volta branch and one of four official languages of Burkina Faso.
The pronunciation of the letters without diacritics corresponds more or less to their International Phonetic Alphabet equivalents, except for the labial–velar consonant [k͡p] (written p ) and [ɡ͡b] (written gb ), in which both consonants are pronounced simultaneously rather than sequentially.