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Mumuye–Yendang languages

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Mumuye–Yendang
Geographic
distribution		eastern Nigeria
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Subdivisions
Glottologmumu1249

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. ^ Cite error: The named reference Glottolog was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

References


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