Wikipedia: Niger-Congo languages/Talk

: The Niger-Congo languages are the largest group of the world in terms of different languages.

Any data supporting this claim ?

Try this one for some fairly exact figures on a whole raft of language families:

It shows the Niger-Congo family way in front of everything but Austronesian, and ahead of that too. -- Paul Drye

Difference between language and dialect is quite arbitrary and the difference in numbers isn't that big anyway, so I added "probably". -- Taw