Bafia languages

The Bafia languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone A.50 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), the languages form a valid node. They are:

Fa’ (Lefa), Kaalong (Dimbong), Kpa (Bafia), Ngayaba (Tibea)
Bafia
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo
Glottologbafi1244[1]

Hijuk was listed as unclassified A.50 in Guthrie, but according to Ethnologue it is quite similar to Basaa.

Footnotes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bafia (A.50)". 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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