The Buja–Ngombe languages are a group 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.
T ...
s reported to be a valid clade by Nurse & Philippson (2003). They are Buja (C.37), the Ngombe languages (C.41), and Tembo (C.46):
:
Budza–
Tembo–Kunda–Gbuta–Babale,
Ngombe (Doko),
Bomboma
Bomboma (Mboma) is a 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 ...
,
Bamwe,
Dzando,
Gendza,
Kula
Kula, which translates as ''Tower'' from Serbo-Croatian, may refer to:
People
*Bob Kula, American football player
*Irwin Kula (born 1957), American rabbi and author
*Karel Kula (born 1963), Czech footballer
Places
* Kula, Bihać, a village in B ...
Guthrie also lists two unclassified C.30 varieties,
Doko and
Londo (Bolondo). ''Ethnologue'' lists the first as a dialect of Ngombe, and says that the latter is most similar to Tembo, so both may belong here. ''
Glottolog
''Glottolog'' is a bibliographic database of the world's lesser-known languages, developed and maintained first at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany (between 2015 and 2020 at the Max Planck Institute fo ...
'' lists
Bwela as closest to Tembo as well.
Footnotes
References
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