Niger-Congo

短语

词形变化

Niger-Congos 复数 Niger-Congos

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A speaker of any Niger-Congo language, or a member of a Niger-Congo culture by ancestry or other affinity.

  2. 2.

    An African descendant of the transatlantic middle passage in the Americas.

    引申义
adj.
  1. 1.

    Belonging to the Niger-Congo language family, or pertaining to its associated peoples.

name
  1. 1.

    A major language family of sub-Saharan Africa noted for the use of a noun class system.

    语言学

词汇关系

名词

下位词 4

Bantu sango Voltaic West African

词源

Coined in the 1950s by Joseph Greenberg, from the name of the two principal rivers in the area in which this language family is spoken, the Niger River and the Congo River.

来源：wiktionary