#Niger-Kordofanian_language__Niger-Kordofanian  the family of languages that includes most of the languages spoken in sub-Saharan Africa; the majority of them are tonal languages but there are important exceptions (e.g., Swahili or Fula)
  supertype:  #natural_language__naturallanguage__tongue  a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
  subtype:  #Kordofanian  a group of languages spoken in the relatively small Kordofan area of the south Sudan
  subtype:  #Niger-Congo  a family of African language spoken in west Africa
     subtype:  #Sango  a trade language widely used in Chad
     subtype:  #Bantoid_language__Bantu  a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
        subtype:  #Chichewa  the Bantu language of the Chewa people of east central Africa
        subtype:  #ChiMwini  a Bantu language spoken in southern Somalia
        subtype:  #Chishona  a Bantu language that is one of the two major languages of Zimbabwe
        subtype:  #Fang  a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon
        subtype:  #Gikuyu  a Bantu language spoken in western Kenya
        subtype:  #Giriama  a Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya
        subtype:  #Kamba  a Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya
        subtype:  #Kichaga__Chaga__Chagga  a Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania
        subtype:  #Kinyarwanda  a Bantu language
        subtype:  #Kiswahili  a Bantu language
        subtype:  #Kongo  the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo people living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola
        subtype:  #Luba  a Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire
        subtype:  #LuGanda  the Bantu language of the Buganda people; spoken in Uganda
        subtype:  #Luyia  a Bantu language
        subtype:  #Mashi  a Bantu language
        subtype:  #Mwera  a Bantu language spoken in southern coastal Tanzania
        subtype:  #Nguni  a group of southern Bantu languages
           subtype:  #Ndebele__Matabele  a Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu
           subtype:  #Swazi  a Bantu language closely related to Zulu
           subtype:  #Xhosa  a Bantu language closely related to Zulu
           subtype:  #Zulu  a Bantu language of considerable literary importance in southeastern Africa
        subtype:  #Nyamwezi  a Bantu language spoken in central Tanzania
        subtype:  #Pokomo  a Bantu language spoken in the Kenyan coastal areas of East Africa
        subtype:  #Sotho  any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho people in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho
           subtype:  #Sesotho__Basuto  the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Basotho; an official language of Lesotho
           subtype:  #Setswana__Tswana__Sechuana  the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana people in Botswana
        subtype:  #Umbundu  a Bantu language spoken in Angola
        subtype:  #Swahili  the most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa
        subtype:  #Tonga  the language of the Tonga people of south central Africa (Zambia and Rhodesia)
     subtype:  #Gur__Voltaic  a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana
     subtype:  #West_African  a group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa
        subtype:  #Fula__Fulah__Fulani  a family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad; the best known of the West African Niger-Congo languages
        subtype:  #Serer  a West African language closely related to Fula; spoken primarily in Senegal and Gambia
        subtype:  #Wolof  the West AFrican language of the Wolof people in Senegal
     subtype:  #Mande  a group of African languages in the Niger-Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast
     subtype:  #Kwa  a group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria
        subtype:  #Aku__Yoruba  a Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria
        subtype:  #Akan  a Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast
        subtype:  #Ewe  a Kwa language spoken by the Ewe people in Ghana and Togo and Benin

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