The Pende or Holu languages are a clade of
Bantu language
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
The t ...
s coded Zone L.10 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), they form a valid node together with a couple languages from Zone H:
:(L10)
Pende,
Samba
Samba (), also known as samba urbano carioca (''urban Carioca samba'') or simply samba carioca (''Carioca samba''), is a Brazilian music genre that originated in the Afro-Brazilian communities of Rio de Janeiro in the early 20th century. Havin ...
–
Holu,
Kwese, (H10)
Suundi, (H40)
Mbala
Maho (2009) adds
Sonde
Sonde (French for ''probe'') may refer to:
Electronic probes
*CTD (instrument), a type of water quality sensor
*Ionosonde, a radar for examining the ionosphere
*Radiosonde, a piece of equipment used on weather balloons
*Rocketsonde, a sounding roc ...
to L10.
Footnotes
References
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