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

• Mambiloid
  • Mambila Konja
    • Mambila (130,000 speakers; 100,000 in Nigeria, 30,000 in Cameroon)
    • Konja: Kwanja (Konja) (20 thousand), Twendi (almost †)
    • Kamkam: Kamkam (Mbongno) (3 thousand), Mwanip (100), Somyewe (almost †), Ndunda (300–400)
    • Njerep almost †
  • Ndoro
    • Ndoola (Ndoro) (60k)
  • Suga-Vute
    • Suga (10k), Vute ( 20k ), Wawa (3k)

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.

Web links

• Ernst Kausen: The classification of the Benue-Congo languages ​​within the Niger-Congo. (DOC; 232 kB)