Mamfe languages

Mamfe
Nyang
Geographic distribution:	Southwest Cameroon
Linguistic classification:	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Mamfe

Glottolog:	`mamf1238`^[1]

The Mamfe or Nyang languages are,

Denya, Kendem and Kenyang (Nyang).

They form a branch of Southern Bantoid languages spoken in southwest Cameroon. They are clearly related to each other, though they are not close.

Footnotes

↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mamfe". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

References

Blench, Roger, 2011. The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.

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