Sub-Saharan Africa, but not farther west than Nigeria
Linguistic classification
Niger–Congo?
Atlantic–Congo
Volta–Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Proto-language
Proto-Bantoid[1][2]
Subdivisions
Northern Bantoid
Southern Bantoid
Glottolog
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The Bantoid languages shown within the Niger–Congo language family. Non-Bantoid languages are greyscale.
Bantoid is a major branch of the Benue–Congo language family. It consists of the Northern Bantoid languages and the Southern Bantoid languages, a division which also includes the Bantu languages that constitute the overwhelming majority and after which Bantoid is named.
^Watters, John R. (2018). East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs. Language Science Press. ISBN 9783961101009.
^Asher, R. E.; Moseley, Christopher (19 April 2018). Atlas of the World's Languages. Routledge. ISBN 9781317851097.
Bantoid is a major branch of the Benue–Congo language family. It consists of the Northern Bantoidlanguages and the Southern Bantoidlanguages, a division...
Southern Bantoid (or South Bantoid) is a branch of the Bantoidlanguage family. It consists of the Bantu languages along with several small branches and...
Northern Bantoid (or North Bantoid) is a branch of the Bantoidlanguages. It consists of the Mambiloid, Dakoid, and Tikar languages of eastern Nigeria...
branch of the Southern Bantoidlanguages. The total number of Bantu languages is estimated at between 440 and 680 distinct languages, depending on the definition...
The Grassfields languages (or Wide Grassfields languages) are a branch of the Southern Bantoidlanguages spoken in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon...
is a potentially extinct Southern Bantoidlanguage spoken in Cameroon. It is one of the three, or four, Furu languages. In 1986 four surviving speakers...
of Cross River. Apart from these, there are numerous Bantoidlanguages, which are the languages immediately ancestral to Bantu. These include Mambiloid...
unclassified Southern Bantoidlanguage of Cameroon. According to Ethnologue it is extinct. As of 2005 there were 3 speakers of the language. Busuu is an endangered...
The Ekoid languages are a dialect cluster of Southern Bantoidlanguages spoken principally in southeastern Nigeria and in adjacent regions of Cameroon...
The Tivoid languages are a branch of the Southern Bantoidlanguages spoken in parts of Nigeria and Cameroon. The subfamily takes its name after Tiv, the...
the currency of Korea between 1892 and 1902 Nyang languages, a group of Southern Bantoidlanguages spoken in Southwest Cameroon Nyang River, a major river...
The Mamfe or Nyang languages are three languages that form a branch of Southern Bantoidlanguages spoken in southwest Cameroon. They are: Denya, Kendem...
The Kajuk language, Ekajuk (also spelled Akajo and Akajuk), is an Ekoid language (of the Niger–Congo family) spoken in the Cross River State and some surrounding...
is by far the largest of the Tivoid languages, a group of languages belonging to the Southern Bantoidlanguages Tiv is widely spoken in the States of...
Tikar (also called Tigé, Tigré or Tikari) is a Northern Bantoid, semi-Bantu language that is spoken in Cameroon by the Tikar people, as well as by the...
The Dakoid languages are a branch of the Northern Bantoidlanguages spoken in Taraba and Adamawa states of eastern Nigeria. Dakoid Gaa–Dong Donga (Dong)...
Manuscript. Blench, Roger (2011) 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu'. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin. v t...
Denya is a Southern Bantoidlanguage of Cameroon in the Mamfe family. It has four dialects: Bajwo (Bajwa), Basho, Bitieku and Takamanda; they are divergent...
The Furu languages are a proposed group of poorly attested extinct or nearly extinct and otherwise unclassified Southern Bantoidlanguages of Cameroon...
The official language of the Republic of Congo is French. Other languages are mainly Bantu languages, and the two national languages in the country are...
(Fám; exonym: Kɔŋa) is a Bantoidlanguage of Bali LGA in Taraba State, Nigeria. It is now usually left as unclassified within Bantoid, however Blench (2011)...
Indonesian airline Kiwanis International, service club Ki language, a Southern Bantoidlanguage of Cameroon Ki (kana), a Japanese syllabic character Ki...
Niger–Congo languages. This latter group comprises one Senegambian language (Fulfulde), 28 Adamawa languages, and 142 Benue–Congo languages (130 of which...
region of Nigeria. A member of the Southern Bantoid group, Abanyom is fairly closely related to the Bantu languages. It is tonal and has a typical Niger–Congo...
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