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尼日-剛果諸語言(Niger-Congo languages)

非洲大語系，擁有語言900～1,300餘種，撒哈拉沙漠以南的大多數人口都使用尼日-剛果諸語言，其使用範圍北起塞內加爾北部和肯亞，南抵那米比亞和南非開普省東部。尼日-剛果這個名稱是格林伯格在1955年所提出。以今日所瞭解的，尼日-剛果諸語言共分為九個語族，曼德諸語言、科爾多凡諸語言、大西洋諸語言（舊稱西大西洋諸語言）、庫魯諸語言、古爾諸語言、克瓦諸語言、伊卓德諸語言、阿達馬瓦-烏班吉諸語言（舊稱阿達馬瓦-東部諸語言）和貝努埃-剛果諸語言。科爾多凡語族由超過二十種的語言組成，操此語言的民族（不超過200,000人）居住於蘇丹科爾多凡省南部的努巴山中。庫魯諸語言由超過十種的語言組成，操此語言的民族（1,000,000～2,000人）主要居住於象牙海岸西南部和賴比瑞亞南部。伊卓德則是由八種密切相關的方言組成，操此語言的民族（近乎2,000人）為居住於奈及利亞尼日河三角洲的伊喬人和德法卡族。

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Niger-Congo languages

Superfamily of 900-1,300 languages spoken by most of the population of sub-Saharan Africa,from northern Senegal and Kenya in the north to Namibia and Eastern Cape province (South Africa) in the south. The name Niger-Congo was introduced in 1955 by Joseph H. Greenberg. As understood today,Niger-Congo has nine branches: Mande,Kordofanian,Atlantic (formerly West Atlantic),Kru,Gur,Kwa,Ijoid,Adamawa-Ubangi (formerly Adamawa-Eastern),and Benue-Congo. Kordofanian is a family of more than 20 languages whose speakers (numbering under 200,000) live in the Nuba Mountains of southern Kordofan province in Sudan. Kru comprises more than 10 languages and language complexes whose 1-2 million speakers live primarily in southwestern C?te d'Ivoire and southern Liberia. Ijoid is a group of eight closely related groups of dialects spoken by close to 2 million members of the Ijo (Ijaw) and Defaka peoples of the Niger River delta in Nigeria.