The Niger-Congo Languages: A Classification and Description of Africa's Largest Language Family

Abidjan Adamawa Adamawa-Ubangi African linguistics Atlantic Bantoid languages Bantu languages Bendor-Samuel Bennett and Sterk Benue Benue-Congo Blench branches Central classification clause cognate comparative concord Congo contrast Cross River Defoid Delta dialect cluster distinction Eastern Ebira èdè Edoid Efik Ekoid Eloyi Elugbe feature FIGURE fricatives Fula gender genetic grammar Grassfields Greenberg guages Gur languages Hyman Idoma Idomoid languages Ìgbo Igboid innovation Jukunoid JWAL Kainji Kordofanian Kru languages langues lenis lexical lexicostatistical linguistique London Mande languages Manessy marker morpheme Narrow Bantu nasalized vowels Niger Niger-Congo Nigeria Northern noun class noun class system Nupe Nupoid occur Ph.D phonemes phonology Plateau plural prefixes pronoun proto-Bantu reconstructed root Schadeberg SELAF Shimizu Southern Bantoid speakers spoken stem stops subgroups suffixes syllable tonal tone Ubangi University of Ibadan University Press verb Volta-Congo vowel harmony Welmers West African languages Westermann Western Williamson word lists Yoruba Yoruboid