The Basaa 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 A.40 in
Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), the languages remaining from the formation of the
Mbam group form a valid node. They are:
:
Basaa
Basaa (also spelled ''Bassa, Basa, Bissa''), or Mbene, is a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon by the Basaa people. It is spoken by about 300,000 people in the Centre and Littoral regions.
Maho (2009) lists North and South Kogo as dialects.
B ...
–
Kogo (Bakoko),
Rombi–
Bankon.
Hijuk was listed as unclassified A.50 in Guthrie, but according to ''Ethnologue'' it is quite similar to Basaa.
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