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Be⋅nue-Con⋅go

[bey-nwey-kong-goh]
–noun
a branch of Niger-Congo that comprises a large number of languages, as Efik, Tiv, and the Bantu languages, spoken in central and southern Africa.
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Be·nue-Con·go   (bān'wā-kŏng'gō)   
n.  The branch of the Niger-Congo language family that contains the Bantu languages.
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