Home›Other Niger-Congo Languages›Language Family (Classification)Browse ByLanguage Family (Classification)This dimension links a language to the wider family it belongs to. Wikipedia describes Spanish as "a Romance language of the Indo-European language family," placing it inside two nested groupings at once. Browsing by language family gathers languages that share the same distant common ancestor.Language Family (Classification)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0)Language Family (Classification)Filter Results6 entriesRegionAllAfrica (6)West Africa (2)Yorubaland (1)Speaker Count BandAll16,000,000 to 59,000,000 (4)430,000 to 5,500,000 (2)5,600,000 to 15,000,000 (3)Official StatusAllNational Language (Symbolic, Not Sole Official) (5)Recognized Regional or Minority Language (2)StatusAllLiving (6)Script UsedAllLatin Script (6)Language KindAllSafe (6)TonalAllTonal (5)Word OrderAllSVO (5)Period Start YearAll1601 (1)1777 (2)Classification ConfidenceAllEstablished (5)Proposed (1)Number of LanguagesAll7 (1)22 (1)35 (1)1408 (1)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (3)Speaker CountAll6,000,000 (1)40,000,000 (1)500,000,000 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAtlantic-CongoLanguage Family (Classification)6 entriesGbeLanguage Family (Classification)2 entriesIgboid languagesLanguage Family (Classification)1 entryNiger-CongoLanguage Family (Classification)1 entryPotou-Tano languagesLanguage Family (Classification)1 entrySenegambian languagesLanguage Family (Classification)2 entriesComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.