Basaa languages

Basaa
Linguistic classification:

Niger–Congo

Glottolog: basa1283[1]

The Basaa languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone A.40 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), the languages remaining from the formation of the Mbam group form a valid node. They are:

BasaaKogo (Bakoko), RombiBankon.

Hijuk was listed as unclassified A.50 in Guthrie, but according to Ethnologue it is quite similar to Basaa.

Footnotes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Basaa (A.40)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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