The Mbum–Day languages are a subgroup of the old
Adamawa languages
The Adamawa languages are a putative family of 80–90 languages scattered across the Adamawa Plateau in Central Africa, in northern Cameroon, north-western Central African Republic, southern Chad, and eastern Nigeria, spoken altogether by on ...
family (G6, G13, G14, & Day), provisionally now a branch of the
Savanna languages
The Savannas languages, also known as Gur–Adamawa or Adamawa–Gur, is a branch of the Niger–Congo languages that includes Greenberg's Gur and Adamawa–Ubangui families.
History of classification
The Gur–Adamawa link was demonstrated in ...
. These languages are spoken in southern
Chad
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, northwestern
Central African Republic
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, northern
Cameroon
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, and eastern
Nigeria
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.
Languages
Blench (2006) groups the
Mbum (G6),
Bua (G13),
Kim (G14), and
Day
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languages together within part of a larger
Gur–
Adamawa language continuum
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated variet ...
.
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Bua
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Kim
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Mbum
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Day
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The Kim, Mbum, and Day are also grouped together in an automated computational analysis (
ASJP
The Automated Similarity Judgment Program (ASJP) is a collaborative project applying computational approaches to comparative linguistics using a database of word lists. The database is open access and consists of 40-item basic-vocabulary lists f ...
4) by Müller et al. (2013)
[Müller, André, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Eric W. Holman, Sebastian Sauppe, Pamela Brown, Harald Hammarström, Oleg Belyaev, Johann-Mattis List, Dik Bakker, Dmitri Egorov, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Matthew S. Dryer, Evgenia Korovina, David Beck, Helen Geyer, Pattie Epps, Anthony Grant, and Pilar Valenzuela. 2013. ]
ASJP World Language Trees of Lexical Similarity: Version 4 (October 2013)
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See also
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List of Proto-Lakka reconstructions (Wiktionary)
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List of Proto-Bua reconstructions (Wiktionary)
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Kim word lists (Wiktionary)
References
Atlantic–Congo languages
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