Nyali languages
| Nyali | |
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| Budu–Ndaka | |
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| Glottolog: | nyal1255[1] |
The Nyali languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone D.33 in Guthrie's classification. They are:
They might belong in with the Mbole–Enya languages, but the connection could be with Lengola, which constitutes the Lebonya proposal (Nurse 2003).
The Nyali languages were treated as a dialect cluster by Guthrie. Ethnologue notes that Mbo, Ndaka, Budu, Vanuma, and Nyali are quite close. However, Beeke and Ngbee are more distant; Ethnologue suggests Beeke is closer to Bali, and leaves extinct Ngbee unclassified within Bantu.
Footnotes
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nyali–Ndaka–Mbo–Budu–Vanuma". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
References
- Nurse & Philippson (2003), The Bantu Languages.
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