West Atlantic
a group of languages of W Africa constituting a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, and including Fulani and Wolof.
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How to use West Atlantic in a sentence
The Gola and the Kissi belong to the Mel (West Atlantic) ethnolinguistic group.
At the outbreak of the war, as we have seen, he was in charge of the West Atlantic Squadron.
The Heroic Record of the British Navy | Archibald HurdThis fact seems anything but convincing to us, accustomed to the weather signs of the West Atlantic seaboard.
A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees | Edwin Asa DixIndeed we were expecting to hear of the presence of submarines in the West Atlantic throughout the whole of 1917.
The Crisis of the Naval War | John Rushworth Jellicoe
British Dictionary definitions for West Atlantic
the W part of the Atlantic Ocean, esp the N Atlantic around North America
a branch of the Niger-Congo family of African languages, spoken in Senegal and in scattered areas eastwards, including Fulani and Wolof
relating to or belonging to this group of languages
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