Southwest Grassfields languages

Summary

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.

Southwest Grassfields
Western Momo
Geographic
distribution
Cameroon
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Glottologsout3181

The languages are Manta (Tanka, Batakpa), Balo (Alunfa), Osatu, Busam, MenkaAtoŋ.

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

Classification edit

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

Southwest Grassfields

Footnotes edit

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

References edit

  • Blench, Roger (2010) Classification of Momo and West Momo
  • Roger Blench (2010) The Tivoid Languages