Negroland

Negroland presents in the immense diversity of its native idioms the sharpest contrast to Bantuland, where all known tongues are little more than dialects of two primitive stock languages, Bantu and Hottentot. In Sudan, on the contrary, the stock languages are reckoned by the score, and many, no doubt, still remain to be discovered in the almost uhknown regions about the Congo-Chad water-parting and in Adamawa. In their structure they also differ from the southern group, the relational elements being mainly postfixes, whereas in the Bantu system they are mostly prefixes. As far as they are known, the chief Sudanese linguistic families (stock languages) appear to be; Mandingan. with innumerable dialects widespread throughout west Sudan; Fulah, west and central Sudan; Wolof and Serer, between the Lower Senegal river and Cape Verd; Bagnum, Felup, Nalu, Sumba, between Cape Verde and Sierra Leone; Timni, Bullom, Mendi, Gallina, in Sierra Leone; Pessi, Gola, Km, Avilwm, Agni, Liberia and Ivory Coast; Tshi, Ga, Ewe, and Yoruba, Gold and Slave Coasts; Igarra, Ibo, Ohriha, Efth, Nupe, Lower Niger, Niger delta, and Oil rivers; Kissi, Sonrhay, Upper Niger; Mosso, Gurma, Gurwnga, Borgu, within the Niger bend; Hausa, Kanuri, central Sudan; Baghirmi, Sara, Mosgu, Yedina, Kuri, Lake Chad and Shari river; Mala, Massalit, Kond.onga, Fur, Nuba, Tegele, east Sudan and Nubia; Shuli, Bari, Dinlta, Shilluh Bongo, Fagelu, Jangliey, Fallanj, Luri, Modi, Upper Nile and Sobat basins; Mangbattu (Mombuttu), A-Zandeh, (Niam-Niam), A-Madi, Momfu, A-Barmbo, A-Babua, Nsahltara, Welle basin.