Mumuye–Yendang languages
| Mumuye–Yendang | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | eastern Nigeria |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger–Congo
|
| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | mumu1249[1] |
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 2 Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mumuye–Yandang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
References
- Roger Blench, 2004. List of Adamawa languages (ms)
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