Shona languages
| Shona | |
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| Geographic distribution: | Zimbabwe |
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| Glottolog: | shon1250[1] |
The Shona languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone S.10 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), the languages form a valid node. They are:
- Shona proper, Dema, Kalanga, Manyika, Ndau, Nambya, Tawara, Tewe
Some classifications include them with the other Zone S languages as Southern Bantu.
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Shona (S.10)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Nurse & Philippson (2003), The Bantu Languages.