Benue-Kongo-lingui

Benue-Kongo-lingui esas la maxim granda grupo dil Nijer-Kongo-linguaro, kun 900 lingui segun Ethnologue 2009 e kun 270 milion parolanti. La nomo venas ek la fakto ke ta lingui extensas norde, de l'estala rivo dil fluvio Benue til la rivo dil fluvio Kongo, an la nordo.

 Bibliografio 
 Joseph Greenberg: The Languages of Africa. Mouton, The Hague and Indiana University Center, Bloomington 1963.
 Bernd Heine et al: Die Sprachen Afrikas. Buske, Hamburg 1981.
 John Bendor-Samuel: The Niger-Congo Languages: A Classification and Description of Africa's Largest Language Family. University Press of America, Lanham, New York, London 1989.
 Williamson, Kay & Blench, Roger (2000) 'Niger-Congo', in Heine, Bernd and Nurse, Derek (eds) African Languages - An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 Blench, Roger et al 2004, The Benue-Congo languages: A proposed internal classification.