Mbete languages

Mbete
Mbere
Linguistic classification:

Niger–Congo

Glottolog: mber1262  (Mbere + Tchitchege + Teke-Tege)[1]

The Mbete (Mbere) languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone B.60 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), the languages form a valid node. They are:

Mbete, Kaning'i, Mbaama–Mpini, Nduumo

Ethnologue 16 adds the Ngul (Ngoli) dialect of Dzing.

Footnotes

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mbere + Tchitchege + Teke-Tege". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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