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Niger-Kordofanian

Niger-Kordofanian proper noun: niger-Congo.

Proper noun

Niger-Kordofanian

  1. (obsolete) Niger-Congo.

Origin of Niger-Kordofanian

Coined in the 1960s, from the then-valid classification of this language family in the two sub-branches Niger-Congo and Kordofanian, which is today considered obsolete.

Questions about Niger-Kordofanian

What does Niger-Kordofanian mean?
Niger-Kordofanian means niger-Congo.
What part of speech is Niger-Kordofanian?
Niger-Kordofanian is a proper noun.

Words near Niger-Kordofanian in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Niger-Kordofanian (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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