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Niger-Congo — a language family: branches descending from Proto-Niger-Congo
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The Niger-Congo family as a floor on the one map: its daughter BRANCHES are the trees, descending from Proto-Niger-Congo — a RECONSTRUCTION (a postulate: cited to the comparative method, inferred from the regular correspondences among the attested languages, never kept as a fact and never sealed). The branches and their languages are attested; Proto-Niger-Congo is reconstructed. The family is held SEPARATE from the others (no contested macro-family). At Babel the one language became many (Genesis 11); this is one of those tongues. Found, never generated (tools/seed_language_families.py).
- part of → The Floor of Discovery — one floor, and by its design the fear of God — the Niger-Congo floor rests on the one Floor of Discovery
- has part → Bantu — a branch of Niger-Congo — a branch (tree) of the Niger-Congo family: Bantu
- has part → Volta-Niger — a branch of Niger-Congo — a branch (tree) of the Niger-Congo family: Volta-Niger
- has part → Mande — a branch of Niger-Congo — a branch (tree) of the Niger-Congo family: Mande
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