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West African   /wɛst ˈæfrəkən/   Listen
West African

noun
1.
A group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa.






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"West African" Quotes from Famous Books



... physical conditions, which not only retarded colonisation and development, but powerfully affected the character and the mutual relations of the European settlers. Portuguese mariners, after more than half a century of painful groping downward along the West African coast in search of a sea route to India that vague tradition asserted could there be found, in 1486 rounded the Cape of Good Hope, which then received the despondent name of {p.003} the Cape of Storms from its first discoverer, ...
— Story of the War in South Africa - 1899-1900 • Alfred T. Mahan



Words linked to "West African" :   West Africa, Fulani, Niger-Congo, Wolof, Peul, Ful, Serer, Fula



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