Myene is a cluster of closely related
Bantu
Bantu may refer to:
*Bantu languages, constitute the largest sub-branch of the Niger–Congo languages
*Bantu peoples, over 400 peoples of Africa speaking a Bantu language
* Bantu knots, a type of African hairstyle
* Black Association for Nationa ...
varieties spoken in
Gabon
Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the nort ...
by about 46,000 people. It is perhaps the most divergent of the Narrow Bantu languages,
Bantu Classification
, Ehret, 2009. though Nurse & Philippson (2003) place it in with the Tsogo languages
The Tsogo languages are a clade of Bantu language
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 l ...
(B.30). The more distinctive varieties are Mpongwe (''Pongoué''), Galwa (''Galloa''), and Nkomi.
Notes
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Bibliography
*Jacquot, A. (1976) ''Etude de la phonologie et de la morphologie myene'', in ''Etudes Bantoues II', Bulletin SELAF 53, Paris, 13–79.
*Philippson, G. & G. Puech (1996)
Tonal domains in Galwa (Bantu, B11c)'
* The Bantu languages
External links
* ELAR archive o
Comparative documentation of the Myene language cluster: Adyumba, Enenga, Galwa, Mpongwe, Nkomi and Orungu
Tsogo languages
Languages of Gabon
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