Mbete languages

The Mbete (Mbere) languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone B.60 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), the languages form a valid node. They are:

Mbete, Kaning'i, Mbaama–Mpini, Nduumo
Mbete
Mbere
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo
Glottologmber1262  (Mbere + Tchitchege + Teke-Tege)[1]

Ethnologue 16 adds the Ngul (Ngoli) dialect of Dzing.

Footnotes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mbere (B.60)". 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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