Southern Mande languages

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Southern Mande
Southeastern Mande
Geographic
distribution		 Ivory Coast, Liberia
Linguistic classification Niger–Congo?
  • Mande
    • Southeastern Mande
      • Southern Mande
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
Glottolog sout3140

The Southern Mande languages (called 'Southeastern Mande' in Kastenholz, who calls the superior Southeastern Mande node 'Eastern') are a branch of the Mande languages spoken across Ivory Coast and into Liberia.

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Classification

The following internal classification is from Dwyer (1989, 1996), as summarized in Williamson & Blench 2000. [1]

Southern
Mande
Mano–Dan

Mano

Guro–Dan
Nwa–Beng

Vydrin (2009) places Mwan with Guro-Yaure. [2]

There is also an extinct Gbin language. Paperno classifies Gbin and Beng as two primary branches of Southern Mande.[ citation needed ]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Heine, Bernd; Nurse, Derek, eds. (2000). African languages : an introduction. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   0521661781. OCLC   42810789.
  2. ↑ Valentin, Vydrin. On the problem of the Proto-Mande homeland. OCLC   798912747.


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