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Sira languages

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The Sira languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone B.40 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003),[1] together with a couple languages from H10, they form a valid node. They are:

(B.40) Punu, Bwisi, Varama, Vungu, Shira–Bwali, Sangu, Lumbu, (H.10) Vili, Kunyi.
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Maho (2009) adds Ngubi.

In addition, the unclassified Pygmy language Rimba (Irimba) is generally assumed to be a dialect of Punu.

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  1. [1]
    Nurse, Derek; Philippson, Gérard, eds. (2003). The Bantu languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780700711345.


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