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Southern Bantoid was first introduced in Williamson (1989, based on work presented in Blench {Link without Title} ) in a proposal that divided Bantoid in North and South Bantoid. The uniformity of the North Bantoid group was called into question subsequently, but the work did establish Southern Bantoid as a valid genetic unit.

According to Williamson and Blench (2000:34–5), Southern Bantoid is divided into (Narrow) Bantu and the Jarawan , Tivoid , Beboid , and Wide Grassfields-Ekoid-Mbe-Nyang subfamilies.


REFERENCES

  • Blench, Roger {Link without Title} 'A new classification of Bantoid languages.' Unpublished paper presented at 17th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden.

  • Williamson, Kay (1989) 'Niger-Congo Overview'. In: ''The Niger-Congo languages'', ed. by John Bendor-Samuel, 3–45. University Press of America.

  • Williamson, Kay & Blench, Roger (2000) 'Niger-Congo', in Heine, Bernd and Nurse, Derek (eds) ''African Languages - An Introduction.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University press, pp. 11—42.



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