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{{See also|List of Negro-Egyptian languages}}
{{Infobox language family
|name = Negro-Egyptian
|region = [[Afrika]], after [[Black Chattelization Wars]], many creoles and mistures of Negro-Egyptian spread to many areas of the western hemisphere.
|familycolor = Negro-Egyptian
|family = One of the world's major [[language family|language families]]
|protoname = [[Proto-Negro-Egyptian language|Proto-Negro-Egyptian]]
|child1 = [[Kemetic language|Kemetic]]
|child2 = [[Cushitic languages|Cushitic]]
|child3 = [[Chadic language|Chadic]]
|child4 = [[Nilo-Saharan languages|Nilo-Saharan]]
|child5 = [[Niger-Kordofanian languages|Niger-Kordofanian]]
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The '''Negro-Egyptian languages''' are a [[language family|family]] of several thousand related [[List of Negro-Egyptian languages languages|languages and dialect]]s. It has about over 1800 languages and dialects, according to the 2005 [[Ethnologue]] estimate, about (1500) belonging to the [[Niger-Kordofanian languages|Niger-Kordofan]] subbranch<ref>http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=52-16</ref> <ref>http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=68-16</ref>. It includes most major current [[languages of Afrika]], the mixed languages spoken on islands in the [[Carribean Sea]], and is generally spoken in one way or another by Afrikan decendants of the [[Ma'afa]], and was also the indiginous language of ancient [[Kemet]].

This language family encompases almost all the languages spoken in Afrika, save for [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and [[Berber language|Berber]]

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Negro-Egyptian languages - Revision history

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