Southwest Grassfields languages
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.
| Southwest Grassfields | |
|---|---|
| Western Momo | |
| Geographic distribution | Cameroon |
| Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo
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| Glottolog | sout3181[1] |
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
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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