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The Sabi languages are a group of
Bantu languages The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages. The t ...
established by Christine Ahmed. They constitute much of Guthrie's Zone M, plus Senga. The languages, or clusters, along with their Guthrie identifications, are: * Taabwa (Malungu, M40) * Tumbuka-Senga (N20) *South Sabi:
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(M40), Aushi, Lala-Bisa, Seba, Swaka (M50) Bwile may belong here as well, as it is part of Guthrie's M40 group and Nurse (2003) does not note it as an exception, but it is not close to other languages and was not addressed by Ahmed. Similarly, although Spier (2020) focuses specifically on Aushi and includes an appendix comparing Sabi linguistic varieties, Bwile remains unaddressed due to limited available data. Nurse and Philippson suspect that the
Botatwe languages The Botatwe languages are a group of Bantu languages. They are the languages of Guthrie group M.60 (Lenje–Tonga) plus some of the Subia languages (K.40): *Tonga (incl. Dombe, Leya) * Ila (Lundwe, Sala) * Soli * Lamba *Lenje (incl. Lukanga ...
may be related.


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Further reading

M40 Bantu Linguistic Varieties and Ethnolinguistic Groups (Bibliography)
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