Boan (Buan, ''Ababuan'') is a proposed intermediate group of
Bantu languages
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coded Zones C and D in
Guthrie's classification.
[McMaster, Mary Allen. 1988. ''Patterns of Interaction: A comparative ethnolinguistic perspective on the Uele region of Zaïre ca. 500 A.D. to 1900 A.D.'' Los Angeles: University of California. 346.] There are three branches:
*''
Komo'' (D20)
*''
Bali
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'' (D20), ?
Beeke
*Bomokandian (the various
Bwa and
Biran languages)
**
Biran (Bira–Amba) (D22, D30)
**''
Homa (Ngenda)'' (D40)
**''
Lika
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'' (D20)
**
Bati–Angba (Bwa) (C40)
Beeke is an erstwhile member of the
Nyali cluster that seems to be closest to Bali.
In the ''Glottolog'' 2.3 classification, several additional, poorly attested languages are included as being closest to Homa/Ngenda:
*''
Bali
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'' (D20)
*Old Bomokandian
**
Komoic (Biran, incl. Komo)
**
Middle Bomokandian (Lika & Bati–Angba)
**Ngbele–Ngenda
***Extreme-north Vestigial-suffix Bantu:
Kari,
Ngbee,
Nyanga-li (Gbati-ri)
***Ngendan
****
Homa,
Ngbinda, ?
Boguru, ?
Bodo
Bodo may refer to:
Ethnicity
* Boro people, also called ''Bodo'', an ethno-linguistic group mainly from Northwest Assam, India
* Bodo-Kachari people, an umbrella group from Nepal, India and Bangladesh that includes the Boro people
Culture an ...
(perhaps instead
Lebonya)
References
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