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| Eastern Grassfields | |
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| Mbam–Nkam | |
| Geographic distribution | Cameroon |
| Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo?
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| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | mbam1249 |
The Eastern Grassfields languages, spoken in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon, are a branch of the Grassfields languages including Bamun, Yamba and Bamileke.
The Eastern Grassfield languages have nasal prefixes, while Western Grassfield languages have only "remnants of nasal prefixes".[1] These Grassfield Bantu (GB) languages share about a 41 to 60 percent lexical similarities.[2]
There are four or five branches to the family:
- Nkambe languages (north)
- Mbam–Nkam (south)
Nurse (2003) reports that Bamileke might be two branches.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ↑ Akumbu, Pius W.; Wills, Jeffrey (2022). "Remnants of nasal prefixes in Western Grassfields Bantu (abstract)" (pdf). University of Hamburg. p. 2. Retrieved April 28, 2026.
- ↑ Watters, John R. (2006). Grasslands Bantu, Chapter 14 of The Bantu Languages, Volume 4 of Routledge Language Family Series. Routledge. pp. 225, 227. ISBN 9781135796839. Retrieved April 28, 2026.
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