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Family of Bantu languages
The Bafia languages are a clade of
Bantu languages coded Zone A.50 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), the languages form a valid node. They are:
Fa’ (Lefa),
Kaalong (Dimbong),
Kpa (Bafia),
Ngayaba (Tibea)
Hijuk was listed as unclassified A.50 in Guthrie, but according to Ethnologue it is quite similar to
Basaa .
References
Nurse, Derek; Philippson, Gérard, eds. (2003). The Bantu languages . London: Routledge.
ISBN
9780700711345 .
Zone A
A10 A20 A30 A40 A50 A60 A70 A80 A90
Zone B
Zone C
Zone D
D10 D20 D30 [J]D40 [J]D50 [J]D60
Zone E
[J]E10 [J]E20 [J]E30 [J]E40 E50 E60 E70
Zone F
Zone G
Zone H
Zone J*
[J]D40 [J]D50 [J]D60 [J]E10 [J]E20 [J]E30 [J]E40 [J]F20
Zone K
Zone L
Zone M