Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun niger-congo

1 sense of niger-congo

Sense 1
Niger-Congo -- (a family of African language spoken in west Africa)
       => Niger-Kordofanian, Niger-Kordofanian language -- (the family of languages that includes most of the languages spoken in Africa south of the Sahara; the majority of them are tonal languages but there are important exceptions (e.g., Swahili or Fula))