Bamileke languages

Bamileke
Bamiléké
Ethnicity Bamileke people
Geographic
distribution
Grassfields of western Cameroon
Linguistic classification Niger–Congo
Subdivisions
  • Eastern
  • Western
ISO 639-2 / 5 bai
Glottolog bami1239[1]

The Bamileke languages are a group of Eastern Grassfields languages spoken by the Bamileke people in the Western grassfields of Cameroon.

The languages, which might constitute two branches of Eastern Grassfields, are:

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bamileke". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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