Nyali languages

Nyali
	Budu–Ndaka
Linguistic classification	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu (Zone D.33) Lebonya ? Nyali; ; ; ; ; ;
Glottolog	nyal1255[1]

The Nyali languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone D.33 in Guthrie's classification. They are:

Budu, Ndaka, Nyali, Vanuma, Mbo

They might belong in with the Mbole–Enya languages, but the connection could be with Lengola, which constitutes the Lebonya proposal (Nurse 2003).

The Nyali languages were treated as a dialect cluster by Guthrie. Ethnologue notes that Mbo, Ndaka, Budu, Vanuma, and Nyali are quite close. However, Beeke and Ngbee are more distant; Ethnologue suggests Beeke is closer to Bali, and leaves extinct Ngbee unclassified within Bantu.

Footnotes

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nyali–Ndaka–Mbo–Budu–Vanuma". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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References

Nurse & Philippson (2003), The Bantu Languages.

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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nyali–Ndaka–Mbo–Budu–Vanuma". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.