East Kwa (in some older classifications)

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East Kwa is an older linguistic classification term that referred to what are now more commonly known as the Volta–Niger languages, a branch of the Niger-Congo language family spoken in parts of West Africa.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
East Kwa (in some older classifications) canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historical linguistic term ⓘ
linguistic classification ⓘ
belongsToMacroFamily Atlantic–Congo languages ⓘ
branchOf Niger–Congo language family ⓘ
classificationBasis lexical similarities ⓘ
morphosyntactic features ⓘ
phonological features ⓘ
contrastedWith West Kwa (older classification) ⓘ
field African linguistics ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ
hasAlternativeName East Kwa subgroup ⓘ
Eastern Kwa ⓘ
hasMemberGroup Akokoid languages ⓘ
Edoid languages ⓘ
Gbe languages ⓘ
Idomoid languages ⓘ
Igboid languages ⓘ
Nupoid languages ⓘ
Yoruboid languages ⓘ
hasModernName Volta–Niger languages ⓘ
languageFamily Niger–Congo ⓘ
partOf Kwa languages (older classification) ⓘ
reclassifiedAs Volta–Niger branch ⓘ
linked to: Volta–Niger
refersTo Volta–Niger languages ⓘ
region West Africa ⓘ
spokenIn Benin ⓘ
Ghana ⓘ
Nigeria ⓘ
Togo ⓘ
status obsolete classification term ⓘ
subgroupOf Niger–Congo language family ⓘ
supersededBy Volta–Niger classification ⓘ
timePeriodOfUse mid-20th century ⓘ
usedBy 20th-century Africanist linguists ⓘ
usedIn older linguistic classifications ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Volta–Niger languages → alsoKnownAs → East Kwa (in some older classifications) ⓘ