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)

a trade language widely used in Chad

a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent

a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana

a group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa

a group of African languages in the Niger-Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast