Southern Bantoid languages
- Southern Bantoid languages
Infobox Language family
name=Southern Bantoid
region=Subsaharan Africa, but not further west than Nigeria
familycolor=Niger-Congo
fam2=Atlantic-Congo
fam3=Volta-Congo
fam4=Benue-Congo
fam5=Bantoid
child1=Jarawan
child2=Tivoid
child3=Beboid
child4=Mamfe (Nyang)
child5=Grassfields
child6=Ekoid
child7=Narrow Bantu
In the classification of African languages, Southern Bantoid (or South Bantoid) is one of the two branches of the Bantoid subfamily of the Niger-Congo phylum. Southern Bantoid, home to the well known and numerous Bantu subfamily, comprises 643 languages according to the Ethnologue, making it one of the largest subfamilies in terms of number of languages.
Southern Bantoid was first introduced in Williamson (1989, based on work presented in Blench [1987] ) in a proposal that divided Bantoid in North and South Bantoid. The uniformity of the North Bantoid group was called into question subsequently, but the work did establish Southern Bantoid as a valid genetic unit.
According to Williamson and Blench (2000:34–5), Southern Bantoid is divided into the Narrow Bantu, Jarawan, Tivoid, Beboid, Mamfe (Nyang), Grassfields, and Ekoid families.
References
* Blench, Roger [1987] 'A new classification of Bantoid languages.' Unpublished paper presented at 17th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden.
* Williamson, Kay (1989) 'Niger-Congo Overview'. In: "The Niger-Congo languages", ed. by John Bendor-Samuel, 3–45. University Press of America.
* Williamson, Kay & Blench, Roger (2000) 'Niger-Congo', in Heine, Bernd and Nurse, Derek (eds) "African Languages - An Introduction." Cambridge: Cambridge University press, pp. 11—42.
External links
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90100 Southern Bantoid on the Ethnologue]
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