Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the DRC, Mozambique, Comoros and Somalia
Linguistic classification
Niger–Congo?
Atlantic–Congo
Volta-Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Southern Bantoid
Bantu
Northeast Bantu
Proto-language
Proto-Northeast Bantu[1][2]
Glottolog
nort3203 nyat1247(Nyaturu–Nilamba)
The Northeast Bantu languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken in East Africa. In Guthrie's geographic classification, they fall within Bantu zones E50 plus E46 (Sonjo), E60 plus E74a (Taita), F21–22, J, G60, plus Northeast Coast Bantu (of zones E & G).[3] Some of these languages (F21, most of E50, and some of J) share a phonological innovation called Dahl's law that is unlikely to be borrowed as a productive process, though individual words reflecting Dahl's law have been borrowed into neighboring languages.
The languages, or clusters, are:
Northeast Bantu languages
Kikuyu–Kamba a.k.a. Thagiicu (primarily E50):
Sonjo (E40)
Cuka
Meru (incl. Tharaka, Mwimbi-Muthambi)
South
Kamba, Daisu
Gikuyu, Embu
Chaga–Taita
Taita (Dawida; E70) – Sagalla
Chaga languages (E60)
Northeast Coast Bantu (G10-G40): Swahili (E70), etc.
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