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n. - The family of languages that includes most of the languages spoken in Africa south of the Sahara.

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  • The ancestry of African Americans is predominantly from Niger-Kordofanian (~71%), European (~13%), and other African (~8%) populations.
  • There are word lists for the major Indo-European languages as well as a number of other families: Afroasiatic, Austronesian, Dravidian, Niger-Kordofanian, and so on.
  • That last bit of info, "The ancestry of African Americans is predominantly from Niger-Kordofanian (~71%), European (~13%), and other African (~8%) populations", that is...
  • The data shows that African-Americans are descended primarily from Niger-Kordofanian ancestors
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