Southern Mande languages

Southern Mande
Southern Mande
Southeastern Mande
Geographic; distribution	Ivory Coast, Liberia
Linguistic classification	Niger–Congo? Mande Southeastern Mande Southern Mande; ; ;
Language codes
Glottolog	sout3140

The Southern Mande languages (called 'Southeastern Mande' in Kastenholz, who calls the superior Southeastern Mande node 'Eastern') are a branch of the Mande languages spoken across Ivory Coast and into Liberia.

Classification

The following internal classification is from Dwyer (1989, 1996), as summarized in Williamson & Blench 2000.^[1]

Southern
Mande

Mano–Dan

Mano

Guro–Dan

	Dan–Goo–Tura

	Guro–Yaure

Nwa–Beng

	Mwa–Wan

	Gban–Beng

Vydrin (2009) places Mwan with Guro-Yaure.^[2]

There is also an extinct Gbin language. Paperno classifies Gbin and Beng as two primary branches of Southern Mande.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ 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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[:0-1] Heine, Bernd; Nurse, Derek, eds. (2000). African languages : an introduction. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521661781. OCLC 42810789.

[Vydrin-2] Valentin, Vydrin. On the problem of the Proto-Mande homeland. OCLC 798912747.

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