See Williamson and Blench, "Niger-Congo," 13. back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

The Bantu languages are part of the larger Niger-Congo language family.    From Wordnik.com.  [D. Africa, 500-1500] Reference

I then explain how Ruvu history is part of the longer eras of Bantu and Niger-Congo history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

English 20\% (official), Niger-Congo language group about 20 local languages come from this group.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1994 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Numerous teachers are already doing that -- and without resorting to jargon about "Niger-Congo" idioms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Ebonics Is Irrelevant] Reference

It bears no close resemblance to its neighbours; it may be a Niger-Congo language, or a language isolate.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MPRE.] Reference

Languages: English 20\% (official), Niger-Congo language group about 20 local languages come from this group.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference

He might try to correlate the -ob noun plural suffix in Yukatec to -b and b- all across Niger-Congo, but no dice.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: PHEEVR AND NUNLEY.] Reference

Moreover, there are many words of basic vocabulary which recur throughout Niger-Congo, often in modified form after undergoing sound changes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

The corollary of this is that Bantu people, like their Niger-Congo ancestors, imagined the corporeal and spiritual worlds as interlinked realms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Moreover, the people he scrutinized were articulating religious beliefs that sprang in some cases from enduring Niger-Congo and Bantu worldviews.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

They range from a Semitic Afro-Asiatic language (a form of Arabic) in the extreme north to Bantu (a Niger-Congo group of languages) in the south.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jam na? « Cameroon] Reference

The subsequent section foregrounds the relationship of the Niger-Congo and Bantu language families to Bantu-speaking people in central-east Tanzania.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Particular attention is given to the ways Ruvu people tapped into Niger-Congo and Bantu-derived knowledge to structure their lives in their new homelands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Note 18: For additional views on Niger-Congo and Bantu worldviews, see Ehret, Civilizations of Africa, 50; Vansina, Paths in the Rainforest, 97 – 8. back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

 Northern Sotho is part of the Niger-Congo family of language and, in descending order, part of the Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, and Bantu subdivisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anaphylaxis] Reference

This is because there are no apparent indications that in ancient Niger-Congo or Bantu societies gendered identities linked to nature spirits or to spirits at all. 49.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Like the idea of the Creator, the reasons for their prevalence across the region is rooted in supple yet enduring epistemologies deriving from early Niger-Congo history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

The Niger-Congo worldview that the world of spirits could bring about affliction endured in Ruvu communities and in the larger Northeast-Coastal-Bantu Culture Zone generally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

At the same time, it must be noted that, as fluid as the contemporary understandings of such sprits are, they remain tied in clear ways to the enduring Niger-Congo frameworks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

In so doing, the Gogo continued an institution that Klieman suggests reflects an enduring Niger-Congo epistemology, which mandated that people submit to first owners of the land. 46.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Murdock,50 makes the case that matriliny as the basis of social relations and organization dates to the period before proto-Bantu to the still-earlier periods of Niger-Congo history. 51.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

The intersection of these elements has long been present in the history of Bantu-speaking societies and likely reflects an enduring aspect of still more ancient Niger-Congo religious understandings. 132.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Because of the various historical turns societies took, they sometimes acquired or innovated different words to convey the idea of the ancient Niger-Congo Creator, and they now and again added new nuances to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

15Two spirit types predominated in early Niger-Congo people's consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Niger-Congo Languages: A Classification and Description of Africa's Largest Language Family.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: U.N. Food Agency Facin] Reference

See Kay Williamson and Roger Blench, "Niger-Congo," in African Languages: An Introduction, ed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

In addition to his work at Rosetta, Jeff studies the African languages of the Benue-Congo subgroup of the Niger-Congo family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference

55Of the four language families (sometimes referred to as phyla) indigenous to Africa, the Niger-Congo language family contains the largest number of extant languages on the continent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

35 What he alluded to was the Bantu-wide concept of witchcraft as the etiology of illness and other states of unwellness, including death, which likely originated in Niger-Congo worldviews.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

54The genetic relationships of the Ruvu subgroup to Bantu as a whole and of Bantu to Niger-Congo are important because much of this work makes arguments based on a history of shared words and meanings across languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

56In other words, over the past ten thousand or more years, between the proto-Niger-Congo period and the present, the Niger-Congo language family evolved many languages that were in their own right ancestral to others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

The Niger-Congo Family and Its Bantu Branch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

"Niger-Congo.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Niger-Congo > Kwa > na-GTM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Benue-Kwa is one Niger-Congo subgroup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference