Tsogo languages

The Tsogo languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone B.30 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), the languages form a valid node. They are:

Tsogo (Getsogo), Himba (Simba), Pinzi, Vove, Kande
Tsogo
Okani
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo
Glottologtsog1242[1]

Nurse & Philippson also include (B.10) Myene, following Piron (1997), who makes Tsogo and Myene together a divergent branch of Bantu. Maho adds Viya (Eviya) and Bongwe.

References

  • Nurse & Philippson (2003), The Bantu Languages.
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Okani (B.30)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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