Volta–Congo languages
Major branch of the Atlantic–Congo languages / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Volta–Congo is a major branch of the Atlantic–Congo family. It includes all the Niger-Congo languages and subfamilies except the families of the erstwhile Atlantic and Kordofanian branches, Mande, Dogon, and Ijo. It thus only differs from Atlantic–Congo in that it excludes the Atlantic languages and, in some conceptions, Kru and Senufo.
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Geographic distribution | West Africa |
Linguistic classification | ? Niger–Congo
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Glottolog | volt1241 |
The Volta–Congo languages shown within the Niger–Congo language family. Non-Volta–Congo languages are greyscale. |
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In the infobox at the right, the languages which appear to be the most divergent (including the dubious Senufo and Kru, which may not be Volta–Congo at all) are placed at the top, whereas those closer to the core (the similar "Benue–Kwa" branches of Kwa, Volta–Niger and Benue–Congo) are near the bottom.[1] If the Kwa or Savannas branches prove to be invalid, the tree will be even more crowded.