Àwọn èdè Folta-Niger

(Àtúnjúwe láti Àwọn èdè Volta-Niger)

Ninu iyasoto àwọn èdè Áfríkà, awon ede Volta-Niger tàbí Ìwọòrùn Bẹ́núé-Kóngò tàbí Ìlàòrùn Kwa lopojulo ninu awon ede ibatan Atlántíkì-Kóngò, pelu awon sistemu ikosoto oro-oruko to wopo ninu awon ede àwọn èdè Atlántíkì-Kóngò.

Volta–Niger
Ìwọòrùn Bẹ́núé-Kóngò
Ìlàòrùn Kwa
Ìpínká
ìyaoríilẹ̀:
Ìwọòrùn Áfríkà; Ìlàòrùn Ghánà, Àrin Nàìjíríà
Ìyàsọ́tọ̀:Niger-Kóngò
Àwọn ìpín-abẹ́:
Akpes
yeai (= Defoidi+)
noi

Some important branches of the Volta–Niger and Benue–Congo families are concentrated in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Benin.
Systematic graphic of the Niger–Congo languages with numbers of speakers



Itokasi àtúnṣe

  • Wolf, Paul Polydoor de (1971) The Noun Class System of Proto-Benue–Congo (Thesis, Leiden University). The Hague/Paris: Mouton.
  • Williamson, Kay (1989) 'Benue–Congo Overview', pp. 248–274 in Bendor-Samuel, John & Rhonda L. Hartell (eds.) The Niger–Congo Languages — A classification and description of Africa's largest language family. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.