Eastern Grassfields languages
Not to be confused with Mbam languages.
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Geographic distribution: | Cameroon |
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Glottolog: | mbam1249[1] |
The Eastern Grassfields languages, spoken in the Bamenda grassfields of Cameroon, are a branch of Southern Bantoid languages including Bamun, Yamba, and Bamileke.
There are four or five branches to the family:
- Nkambe languages (north)
- Mbam–Nkam
Nurse (2003) reports that Bamileke might be two branches.
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mbam–Nkam". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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