language: nic

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has URI	http://lexvo.org/id/term/language/nic
has gloss	eng: The Niger-Congo languages constitute one of the worlds major language families, and Africas largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages. They may constitute the world's largest language family in terms of distinct languages, although this question is complicated by ambiguity about what constitutes a distinct language. Most of the most widely spoken indigenous languages of Subsaharan Africa belong to this group. A common property of many Niger-Congo languages is the use of a noun class system. The most widely spoken Niger Congo languages by native speaker are Yoruba, Igbo, Fula and Shona. The most widely spoken by total nubmer of speakers is Swahili.
has gloss	eng: The Niger-Kordofanian language family was proposed by Joseph Greenberg in his 1963 book Languages of Africa, originally under the name Congo-Kordofanian. It was the consequence of the addition of Kordofanian as a branch coordinate to the previously established Niger-Congo family. However, the Kordofanian languages have not been demonstrated to be more distantly related than other branches of Niger-Congo, and recent classifications have placed them within that family.
lexicalization	eng: Niger-Kordofanian languages
lexicalization	eng: Niger-Kordofanian language
lexicalization	eng: Niger-Kordofanian
subclass of	(noun) a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language natural language, tongue
has subclass	(noun) a group of languages spoken in the relatively small Kordofan area of the south Sudan Kordofanian
has subclass	(noun) a family of African language spoken in west Africa Niger-Congo

Meaning
Danish
has gloss	dan: De niger-kordofanske sprog er afrikas største sprogæt. Det blev opstillet af Joseph Greenberg i 1963.
lexicalization	dan: Niger-kordofanske sprog
German
lexicalization	deu: Niger-Kordofanische Sprachen
lexicalization	deu: Niger-Kordofanische-Sprachen
Macedonian
has gloss	mkd: Нигер-кордофанското јазично семејство е предложено од Џозеф Гринберг во неговото дело „Јазици во Африка“ (англ. Languages of Africa) од 1963 г., првично под името „Конго-кордофански“. Предлогот е даден како последица на додавањето на кордофанските јазици како гранка во претходно воспоставеното Нигер-конгоанско семејство. Меѓутоа кај кордофанските јазици не може да се забележи подалечно сродство од другите гранки на нигер-конгоанските јазици, и затоа во поскоро време тие се класификуваат под тоа семејство.
lexicalization	mkd: Нигер-кородофански јазици
Piemontese
has gloss	pms: Lenghe nìger-kordofanian-e Le lenghe nìger-kordofanian-e a son na stragròssa famija lenghìstica, parlà ant l'Àfrica equatorial e meridional. Le lenghe nìger-kordofanian-e a son:
lexicalization	pms: Lenghe niger-kordofanian-e
lexicalization	pms: lenghe nìger-kordofanian-e
Polish
has gloss	pol: Języki nigero-kordofańskie albo kongo-kordofańskie - grupa językowa zaproponowana w 1963 roku przez Josepha Greenberga, obejmująca języki kordofańskie i języki nigero-kongijskie. Nazwa została zarzucona w 1989 roku po uznaniu języków kordofańskich za podgrupę nigero-kongijskich.
lexicalization	pol: Języki nigero-kordofańskie
lexicalization	pol: Języki nigerokordofańskie
Chinese
has gloss	zho: 尼日尔-科尔多凡语系是语言学家約瑟夫·格林伯格（）在其著作《非洲语言》所提出的语系，原名为刚果-科尔多凡语系，是一个包含900多種非洲語言（以及數千種方言）的大語系。此语系中的所有语言已被语言学家归类为尼日尔-刚果语系语言。
lexicalization	zho: 尼日尔-科尔多凡语系

Links
comment	ISO uses the term "Niger-Kordofanian"
has category	language/swa

Media
media:img	Niger-Congo.png

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language: nic

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