Southwest Grassfields languages

Southwest Grassfields
	Western Momo
Geographic; distribution	Cameroon
Linguistic classification	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Grassfields Southwest Grassfields; ; ; ; ;
Glottolog	sout3181[1]

The Southwest Grassfields, traditionally called Western Momo when considered part of the Momo group or when Momo is included in Grassfields, are a small branch of the Southern Bantoid languages spoken in the Western grassfields of Cameroon.

The languages are Manta (Tanka, Batakpa), Balo (Alunfa), Osatu, Busam, Menka–Atoŋ.

Several of these have been classified as Tivoid, a position reflected in Ethnologue.

Classification

Blench (2010) recognises five coordinate subgroups within Southwest Grassfields.[2]

Southwest Grassfields

Busam
Menka, Atong
Tanka, Bantakpa, Manta
Osatu
Alunfa, Balo

Footnotes

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Southwest Grassfields". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Blenh, Roger (2010). "Classification of Momo and West Momo" (PDF).

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References

Blench, Roger (2010) Classification of Momo and West Momo
Roger Blench (2010) The Tivoid Languages

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

[2] Blenh, Roger (2010). "Classification of Momo and West Momo" (PDF).