Langenesis

Niger-Congo family

Proto-Niger-Congo

c. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE Reconstructed

Proto-Niger-Congo (c. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Niger-Congo language family, with 62 descendant languages and stages on the map.

See Proto-Niger-Congo on the interactive map

Reconstructed ancestor of the Niger-Congo family — by some counts the world's largest language family by number of languages (~1500). The grouping itself and its dating are both contested; estimates of the proto-language range from -12000 BCE down to -8000 BCE.

Descendants 2

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