Bushoong languages

Bushoong
Linguistic classification:

Niger–Congo

Glottolog: bush1251  (Bushoong–Wongo–Lele)[1]
song1305  (Songomeno)[2]

The Bushoong languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone C.80 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), apart from Dengese and the Shuwa "dialect" of Bushoong, the languages form a valid node. They are:

Hendo (Songomeno), Bushoong, Lele, Wongo

Footnotes

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bushoong–Wongo–Lele". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Songomeno". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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