Niger-Congo
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Niger-Congo
a family of African language spoken in west Africa
Vai (also Vei, Vy, Gallinas, Gallines, phonetically [vaɪ]) is a Western Mande language belonging to the Niger-Congo language family. It is spoken by some 144,000 people, of which about 122,000 live in Liberia and some 22,000 in Sierra Leone 5 .
Distribution of complexities in the Vai script
This river may be the Congo, or, perhaps, the Niger. "How I Found Livingstone" by
Is the Lualaba, which Livingstone had traced along a course of nearly thirteen hundred miles, the Nile, the Niger, or the Congo? "A Book of Discovery" by
In 1816 it was still an open question whether the Congo was not identical with the Niger. "Celebrated Travels and Travellers" by
The chief great rivers of Africa are the Nile, the Niger, the Zambesi, the Orange, the Congo, the Senegal, and the Gambia. "The World and Its People: Book VII" by
His work, however, had established the fact that the Niger was not identical with the Congo. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6" by