Eastern Mande languages

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Not to be confused with the
Niger–Congo
family.
Eastern Mande
Eastern Eastern Mande
Geographic
distribution		Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Mali
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
  • Mande
    • Southeastern Mande
      • Eastern Mande
Glottologeast2697

The Eastern Mande languages (called Eastern Eastern Mande by Kastenholz, and Niger–Volta by Schreiber

Samo languages also spoken in Mali
.

Member languages

  • Bissa, spoken in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, and Ivory Coast
  • Boko of Benin and Nigeria
  • Busa of Nigeria and Benin
  • Bokobaru
    of Nigeria
  • Samo languages
    (Sane, San, Sa) of Burkina Faso and Mali
  • Shanga, spoken in Nigeria
  • Tyenga (Kyenga), spoken in Benin and Nigeria.

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 

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. OCLC 42810789
    .
  3. OCLC 798912747
    .


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