The Buja–Ngombe languages are a group of
Bantu language
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu language, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀), or Ntu languages are a language family of about 600 languages of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern, East Africa, Eastern and Southeast Africa, South ...
s reported to be a valid clade by Nurse & Philippson (2003). They are Buja (C.37), the Ngombe languages (C.41), and Tembo (C.46):
:
Budza–
Tembo–Kunda–Gbuta–Babale,
Ngombe (Doko),
Bomboma,
Bamwe,
Dzando,
Gendza,
Kula
Guthrie also lists two unclassified C.30 varieties,
Doko and
Londo (Bolondo). ''Ethnologue'' lists the first as a dialect of Ngombe, and says that the latter is most similar to Tembo, so both may belong here. ''
Glottolog
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'' lists
Bwela as closest to Tembo as well.
Footnotes
References
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