Culturally, West Africa’s population belongs to three primary language families: Afro-Asiatic in the northern Saharan regions, Niger-Congo languages spoken south of the Senegal and Niger Rivers ...

Of these four language families, as I pointed out in a previous article, three--that is, Afro-Asiatic, Niger Congo, and Nilo-Saharan languages--are represented in Nigeria.

Grammatical descriptions of Mara Bantu languages, isiNdebele, Nzadi, and Totela (Bantu), Uduk (Nilo-Saharan), Mano (Mande), Somali; Nominal classification in Atlantic languages; Tense, aspect and ...

The map, from Exploring Africa, has colour-coded each language into the seven families, which include Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, Khosian, Niger-Congo / Congo-Kordofanian, Creole, Austronesian ...

The Kunama ethnic group are one of the early inhabitants of Eritrea. They speak Kunama, which belongs to the Nilo-Saharan language group, and live in an area that is suitable for farming and ...

The recent autosomal DNA study of Tishkoff et al. (2009) 8 confirms that on the whole, Chadic speakers are more closely related to their Nilo-Saharan neighbours than to any other Afroasiatic group.

Many of these languages are from the three major African language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Niger-Congo. While the official language in Nigeria is English, and other major languages ...