Branch of the Bantoid family of Niger–Congo languages
Southern Bantoid
Geographic distribution
Sub-Saharan Africa, but not further west than Nigeria
Linguistic classification
Niger–Congo?
Atlantic–Congo
Volta–Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Southern Bantoid
Proto-language
Proto-Southern Bantoid
Subdivisions
Bendi
Tivoid
East Beboid
Fang language (Cameroon)
Buru–Angwe
Mamfe (Nyang)
Furu
Ekoid–Mbe
West Beboid ?
Grassfields
Bishuo
Busuu
Bantu
Glottolog
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The Southern Bantoid languages shown within the Niger–Congo language family. Non-Southern Bantoid languages are greyscale.
Southern Bantoid (or South Bantoid) is a branch of the Bantoid language family. It consists of the Bantu languages along with several small branches and isolates of eastern Nigeria and west-central Cameroon (though the affiliation of some branches is uncertain). Since the Bantu languages are spoken across most of Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Bantoid comprises 643 languages as counted by Ethnologue, though many of these are mutually intelligible.[1]
^McWhorter, J. 2001. The Power of Babel (p. 81-82). Freeman-Times-Henry Holt, New York.
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