West African languages

E4201

language group linguistic area

West African languages are a diverse group of Niger-Congo and other language families spoken across West Africa that have significantly influenced the vocabulary, grammar, and phonology of many Atlantic and Caribbean creoles.

Statements (62)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	language group → linguistic area →
areSpokenIn	Benin → Burkina Faso → Cape Verde → Côte d’Ivoire → Ghana → Guinea → Liberia → Mali → Niger → Nigeria → Senegal → Sierra Leone → The Gambia → Togo →
continent	Africa →
includesFamily	Adamawa-Ubangi languages → Afroasiatic languages → Atlantic languages → Atlantic-Congo languages → Benue-Congo languages → Chadic languages → Gur languages → Kru languages → Kwa languages → Mande languages → Nilo-Saharan languages → Songhay languages →
includesLanguage	Akan → Bambara → Ewe → Fon → Fula → Ga → Ga-Dangme → Hausa → Igbo → Krio → Mandinka → Wolof → Yoruba →
influenced	African American Vernacular English → Atlantic creoles → Cape Verdean Creole → Caribbean creoles → Guinea-Bissau Creole → Gullah → Haitian Creole → Jamaican Patois → Papiamento → Sranan Tongo →
influencedAspect	grammar of Atlantic and Caribbean creoles → phonology of Atlantic and Caribbean creoles → vocabulary of Atlantic and Caribbean creoles →
majorFamily	Niger-Congo languages →
region	West Africa →
typologicalFeature	ATR vowel harmony → SVO word order → noun class systems → serial verb constructions → tone →

Referenced by (10)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Louisiana Creole → Vincentian Creole English →	hasInfluenceFrom
Forro → Jamaican Patois →	hasSubstrate
Fernando Po Krio →	hasGrammaticalInfluenceFrom
Sranan Tongo →	hasLexicalInfluenceFrom
Fernando Po Krio →	hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom
Haitian Creole →	hasSubstrateInfluenceFrom
Antillean Creole →	hasSubstrateLanguage
Caribbean Spanish →	influencedBy