Mumuye–Yendang languages

Mumuye–Yendang
Geographic
distribution:
eastern Nigeria
Linguistic classification:

Niger–Congo

Subdivisions:
Glottolog: mumu1249[1]

The Mumuye–Yendang languages are a group of Savanna languages spoken in eastern Nigeria. They were labeled "G5" in Joseph Greenberg's Adamawa language-family proposal.

Languages

Only Mumuye and Yandang have more than about 5,000 speakers. Blench (n.d.) classifies the languages as follows:[1]

Footnotes

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

References


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