Identify how the dracidian and niger congo langugae families compare in coverage area despite being spoken by the same percentage of the global population

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Braelyn Ali

1 November, 14:19

Identify how the dracidian and niger congo langugae families compare in coverage area despite being spoken by the same percentage of the global population

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Ryleigh Gay · Answer 1

The most widely spoken Niger-Congo languages by number of native speakers are Yoruba, Igbo, Fula and Shona. The most widely spoken by number of speakers is Swahili.

The Niger-Congo Family features the many languages of Africa south of the Sahara. The family originated in West Africa. Migrations took the languages to eastern and southern Africa. There are over 900 languages in this family in nine branches.