Eastern Mande languages
| Eastern Mande | |
|---|---|
| Eastern Eastern Mande | |
| Geographic distribution | Burkina Faso, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria |
| Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo
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| Glottolog | bisa1265 |
The Eastern Mande languages (called Eastern Eastern Mande by Kastenholz, and Niger–Volta by Schreiber[1]) are a branch of the Mande languages spoken in three areas: northwest Burkina Faso, the border region of northern Benin and Nigeria, and a single language (Bissa) spoken in Ghana.
Member languages
Classification
The following internal classification is from Dwyer (1989, 1996), as summarized in Williamson & Blench 2000.[2]
Vydrin (2009) places San (Samo) with Bisa.[3]
See also
- Proto-Niger-Volta reconstructions (Wiktionary)
References
- ^ Schreiber, Henning. 2008. Eine historische Phonologie der Niger-Volta-Sprachen: Ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der Sprachgeschichte der östlichen Ost-Mandesprachen (Mande Languages and Linguistics 7). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
- ^ Heine, Bernd; Nurse, Derek, eds. (2000). African languages : an introduction. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521661781. OCLC 42810789.
- ^ Valentin, Vydrin. On the problem of the Proto-Mande homeland. OCLC 798912747.
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