Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
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);
[syn: Niger-Kordofanian, Niger-Kordofanian language]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Niger-Kordofanian language
n 1: 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) [syn: Niger-Kordofanian, Niger-
Kordofanian language]