Mamfe languages

Mamfe
	Nyang
Geographic; distribution	Southwest Cameroon
Linguistic classification	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Mamfe; ; ; ; ; ;
Glottolog	mamf1238[1]
	The Mamfe languages shown within Cameroon: Denya Kendem Kenyang

The Mamfe or Nyang languages are three languages that form a branch of Southern Bantoid languages spoken in southwest Cameroon. They are:

Denya, Kendem and Kenyang (Nyang).

They are clearly related to each other, though they are not close.[2]

References

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mamfe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Blench, Roger (2011). "'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu" (PDF). Berlin: Humboldt University. p. 21.

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