Mambiloid languages
The mambiloid languages ( Mambiloid for short ) form a subunit of the northern bantoid languages , a branch of the Benue-Congo languages , which in turn belong to the Niger-Congo .
The 12 mambiloid languages are spoken by around 250,000 people in eastern Nigeria and western Cameroon . The most important language is the Mambila with 130,000 speakers.
Classification of the mambiloid within the Niger-Congo
- Niger-Congo > Volta-Congo> Benue-Congo> East-Benue-Congo> Bantoid-Cross> Bantoid> North-Bantoid> Mambiloid
Classification of the mambiloid languages according to Hedinger 1989
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Mambiloid
- Mambila Konja
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Ndoro
- Ndoola (Ndoro) (60k)
- Suga-Vute
See also
- Niger Congo Languages
- Volta Congo languages
- Benue Congo languages
- East Benue Congo languages
- Bantoid languages
literature
- Joseph Greenberg: The Languages of Africa. Mouton, The Hague and Indiana University Center, Bloomington 1963.
- Bernd Heine and others (ed.): The languages of Africa. Buske, Hamburg 1981.
- Bernd Heine , Derek Nurse (Ed.): African Languages. An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-66178-1 . Inside: Kay Williamson and Roger Blench: Niger-Congo.
- John Bendor-Samuel (Ed.): The Niger-Congo Languages: A Classification and Description of Africa's Largest Language Family. University Press of America, Lanham, New York, London 1989.
Therein: Robert Hedinger: Northern Bantoid. - Patrick Bennett and Jan Sterk: South Central Niger-Congo: A Reclassification. Studies in African Linguistics. 1977.