Niger-Congo
词源说明
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.
释义（英文）
专有名词 Proper noun
- (linguistics) A major language family of sub-Saharan Africa noted for the use of a noun class system.
名词 Noun
- A speaker of any Niger-Congo language, or a member of a Niger-Congo culture by ancestry or other affinity.
- (by extension) An African descendant of the transatlantic middle passage in the Americas.
形容词 Adjective
- Belonging to the Niger-Congo language family, or pertaining to its associated peoples.