Eastern Mande languages

The Eastern Mande languages (called Eastern Eastern Mande by Kastenholz, and Niger–Volta by Schreiber[1]) are a branch of the Mande languages spoken in three areas: northwest Burkina Faso, the border region of northern Benin and Nigeria, and a single language (Bissa) spoken in Ghana.

Eastern Mande
Eastern Eastern Mande
Geographic
distribution		Burkina Faso, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo
  • Mande
    • Southeastern Mande
      • Eastern Mande
Glottologbisa1265

Member languages

Classification

The following internal classification is from Dwyer (1989, 1996), as summarized in Williamson & Blench 2000.[2]

 East Mande 
 Samo–Busa 
 

Samo languages

 
Busa  languages 
 

Busa–Boko

 
 

Shanga–Tyenga

 
 
 
 

Bissa

 
 

Vydrin (2009) places San (Samo) with Bisa.[3]

See also

References
  1. Schreiber, Henning. 2008. Eine historische Phonologie der Niger-Volta-Sprachen: Ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der Sprachgeschichte der östlichen Ost-Mandesprachen (Mande Languages and Linguistics 7). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
  2. Heine, Bernd; Nurse, Derek, eds. (2000). African languages : an introduction. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521661781. OCLC 42810789.
  3. Valentin, Vydrin. On the problem of the Proto-Mande homeland. OCLC 798912747.


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