Basaa languages
The Basaa languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone A.40 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), the languages remaining from the formation of the Mbam group form a valid node. They are:
Basaa | |
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Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo |
Glottolog | basa1283[1] |
Hijuk was listed as unclassified A.50 in Guthrie, but according to Ethnologue it is quite similar to Basaa.
Footnotes
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Basaa (A.40)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
gollark: It also insults you.
gollark: Idea: chess engine which works out the move you *should* have done and explains everything utterly wrong with what you *did* do after you do it.
gollark: Just as planned. Muahahaha.
gollark: yes.
gollark: What if I don't exist and am not a thing, but wish to participate in spÖrts?
References
- Nurse & Philippson (2003), The Bantu Languages.
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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