Eastern Grassfields languages

Eastern Grassfields
Geographic; distribution	Cameroon
Linguistic classification	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Grassfields Eastern Grassfields; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	Bamileke; Ngemba; Nkambe; Nun;
Glottolog	mbam1249[1]

The Eastern Grassfields languages, spoken in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon, are a branch of the Grassfields languages including Bamun, Yamba and Bamileke.

There are four or five branches to the family:

Nurse (2003) reports that Bamileke might be two branches.

References

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

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