West-Atlantic

noun

: a branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages including Wolof, Serer, Balante, Limba, Temne, Kissi, and Gola which are spoken in western Africa from Senegal to Liberia and Fulani which has spread eastward from Senegal to Cameroon

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