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Southwest Grassfields languages

Southwest Grassfields languages

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The Southwest Grassfields, traditionally called Western Momo when considered part of the Momo group or when Momo is included in Grassfields, are a small branch of the Southern Bantoid languages spoken in the Western grassfields of Cameroon.

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The languages are Manta (Tanka, Batakpa), Balo (Alunfa), Osatu, Busam, Menka–Atoŋ.

Several of these have been classified as Tivoid, a position reflected in Ethnologue.

Classification

Blench (2010) recognises five coordinate subgroups within Southwest Grassfields.[1]

Southwest Grassfields

Footnotes

  1. [1]
    Blenh, Roger (2010). "Classification of Momo and West Momo" (PDF).

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