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Record 1 1993-07-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A grouping of more than 500 languages of central and southern Africa, as Kikuyu, Swahili, Tswana and Zulu, all related within a subbranch of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian family

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Ensemble de langues nigéro-congolaises du groupe Benoué-Congo, étroitement apparentées entre elles et parlées dans toute la partie méridionale de l'Afrique par plus de 60 millions de locuteurs.

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