•Nigeria is one of the regions of Africa where three of its four language phyla
overlap and interact
•These are;
•Nilo-Saharan (Songhay,
Saharan)
•Afroasiatic (Chadic,
Semitic, Berber)
•Niger-Congo (Mande, Gur, Atlantic, Volta-Niger, Ijoid, Benue-Congo, Adamawa,
Ubangian)
•The Benue-Congo languages (which include Bantu) are the richest and most
numerous family, including Plateau, East and West Kainji, Cross River, Dakoid,
Mambiloid and other Bantoid, as well as Bantu proper (Jarawan and Ekoid)