Yaka languages

Yaka
Linguistic classification:

Niger–Congo

  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Benue–Congo
Glottolog: yaka1278  (partial match)[1]

The Yaka languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone H.30 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), with a couple additions the languages form a valid node. They are:

Yaka, Suku–Sonde, Mbangala, Shinji (Yungo), (H40) Hungana, (B80) Yansi (a variety or varieties)

The Yaka languages appear to be closest to Kongo.

Footnotes

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

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