Editing Niger–Congo languages (section)

=== Reconstruction ===
{{main|Proto-Niger–Congo language}}
The lexicon of [[Proto-Niger–Congo|Proto–Niger–Congo]] (or Proto-Atlantic–Congo) has not been comprehensively reconstructed, although [[Konstantin Pozdniakov]] reconstructed the [[numeral system]] of Proto–Niger–Congo in 2018.<ref name="pozdniakov">{{Cite book
| last = Pozdniakov
| first = Konstantin
| author-link = Konstantin Pozdniakov
| title = The numeral system of Proto-Niger-Congo: A step-by-step reconstruction 
| series = Niger-Congo Comparative Studies 
| place = Berlin
| publisher = Language Science Press
| date = 2018
| format = pdf
| url = http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/191
| doi = 10.5281/zenodo.1311704 
| doi-access=free
| isbn = 978-3-96110-098-9
}}</ref> The most extensive reconstructions of lower-order Niger–Congo branches include several reconstructions of [[Proto-Bantu]], which has consequently had a disproportionate influence on conceptions of what Proto–Niger–Congo may have been like. The only stage higher than Proto-Bantu that has been reconstructed is a pilot project by Stewart, who since the 1970s has reconstructed the common ancestor of the [[Potou–Tano languages|Potou-Tano]] and Bantu languages, without so far considering the hundreds of other languages which presumably descend from that same ancestor.<ref>Tom Gueldemann (2018) ''Historical linguistics and genealogical language classification in Africa'', p. 146.</ref>