Branch of Southern Bantoid of western Cameroon and part of Nigeria
Grassfields
Wide Grassfields
Geographic distribution
Western High Plateau of Cameroon and Taraba state of Nigeria
Linguistic classification
Niger–Congo?
Atlantic–Congo
Volta–Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Southern Bantoid
Grassfields
Proto-language
Proto-Grassfields
Subdivisions
Narrow Grassfields
Ambele
Menchum
Glottolog
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Clickable map of the Grassfields languages and their subfamilies in western Cameroon
The Grassfields languages (or Wide Grassfields languages) are a branch of the Southern Bantoid languages spoken in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon and some parts of Taraba state, Nigeria. Better known Grassfields languages include the Eastern Grassfields languages, Bamun, Yamba, Bali, and Bafut and the Ring languages, Kom, Nso, and Oku. Almost all of these languages are closely related, sharing approximately half of their vocabulary.[1]
^Derek Nurse & Gérard Philippson, 2003, The Bantu Languages, p 227
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