Niger-Kordofanian language

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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)

Niger-Kordofanian

natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

Kordofanian - a group of languages spoken in the relatively small Kordofan area of the south Sudan

Niger-Congo - a family of African language spoken in west Africa

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

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The few educated southern Sudanese were, however, English-speaking (as a second language), whereas they spoke as their mother tongue a variety of Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Kordofanian languages (Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk, Bari, Moru, Zande, etc.).