Etymology

Niger-Congo

Today it means: A speaker of any Niger-Congo language, or a member of a Niger-Congo culture by ancestry or other affinity. Full definition →

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Coined in the 1950s by Joseph Greenberg, from the name of the two principal rivers in the area in which this language family is spoken, the Niger River and the Congo River.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.