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Niger-Congos

Niger-Congos is the plural of Niger-Congo.

Meaning of Niger-Congo

Noun

Niger-Congo (plural Niger-Congos)

  1. A speaker of any Niger-Congo language, or a member of a Niger-Congo culture by ancestry or other affinity.
  2. (broadly) An African descendant of the transatlantic middle passage in the Americas.

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Questions about Niger-Congos

What is Niger-Congos the plural of?
Niger-Congos is the plural of Niger-Congo.

Words near Niger-Congos in the dictionary

  1. Nigels
  2. niger
  3. Niger seed
  4. Niger seeds
  5. Niger-Congo
  6. Niger-Congos
  7. Niger-Kordofanian
  8. Niger-Saharan
  9. nigeran
  10. Nigeria
  11. Nigerian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Niger-Congos (page history and authors); Niger-Congo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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