Grassfields Bantu languages
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Bantu languages, Grassfields
Grafil languages
Grassfields languages
Grasslands Bantu languages
Grasslands languages
Plateau Bantoid languages
Wide Grassfields languages
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Earlier Established Forms
Sources
found: Encyc. lang. linguistics, 1994:v. 1, p. 302 (In Cameroon, which is considered the origin of the Bantu languages, a special subgroup is found which is referred to as the Grassfields Bantu languages)
found: Niger-Congo langs., 1989:p. 432, under Southern Bantoid (formation of the Grassfields Bantu Working Group in 1980 ...) p. 433 (Eleven parallel branches of Southern Bantoid languages, of which the Wide Grassfields group is the most complex. The branches of the first level of Wide Grassfields consist of Menchum, Western Momo, and Narrow Grassfields.)
found: Voegelin lang.:p. 51, under Bantoid (Grasslands Bantu=Grassfield=Grasfil=Grasfi=Plateau Bantoid)
found: Fivaz. Afr. langs, 1977:p. 44 (Grasslands Group)
found: Mfonyam, J.N. Tone in orthography: the case of Bafut and related languages, 1988:map p. 24 (Sketch map of Grassfields Bantu languages; uses Grassfields Bantu throughout)
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Change Notes
1986-02-11: new
2010-04-13: revised
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