Eastern Grassfields languages

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

Niger–Congo

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.


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