Basaa languages
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:
Basaa | |
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Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo? |
Glottolog | basa1283 |
Hijuk was listed as unclassified A.50 in Guthrie, but according to Ethnologue it is quite similar to Basaa.
Footnotes
References
- Nurse, Derek; Philippson, Gérard, eds. (2003). The Bantu languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780700711345.
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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