Eastern Grassfields languages

Not to be confused with Mbam languages.
Eastern Grassfields
Geographic
distribution:		 Cameroon
Linguistic classification:

Niger–Congo

  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Benue–Congo
      • Southern Bantoid
        • Grassfields
          • Narrow
            • Eastern Grassfields
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: mbam1249[1]

The Eastern Grassfields languages, spoken in the Bamenda grassfields of Cameroon, are a branch of Southern Bantoid languages including Bamun, Yamba, and Bamileke.

There are four or five branches to the family:

Nurse (2003) reports that Bamileke might be two branches.

References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mbam–Nkam". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.