Bushoong languages

Bushoong
Linguistic classification Niger–Congo
Glottolog bush1251  (Bushoong–Wongo–Lele)[1]
song1305  (Songomeno)[2]

The Bushoong languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone C.80 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), apart from Dengese and the Shuwa "dialect" of Bushoong, the languages form a valid node. They are:

Hendo (Songomeno), Bushoong, Lele, Wongo

Footnotes

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

References

  • Nurse & Philippson (2003), The Bantu Languages.


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