Southwest Grassfields languages

Southwest Grassfields
Western Momo
Geographic
distribution:		 Cameroon
Linguistic classification:

Niger–Congo

  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Benue–Congo
      • Southern Bantoid
        • Grassfields
          • Southwest Grassfields
Glottolog: sout3181[1]

The Southwest Grassfields, traditionally called Western Momo when considered part of the Momo group or when Momo is included in Grassfields, are a small branch of the Southern Bantoid languages spoken in the Western grassfields of Cameroon.

The languages are Manta (Tanka, Batakpa), Balo (Alunfa), Osatu, Busam, Menka–Atoŋ.

Several of these have been classified as Tivoid, a position reflected in Ethnologue.

Footnotes

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

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