The Sira 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 largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
The t ...
s coded Zone B.40 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003),
together with a couple languages from H10, they form a valid node. They are:
: (B.40)
Punu,
Bwisi,
Varama,
Vungu,
Shira–Bwali,
Sangu
Sangu may refer to:
* Sangu language (Gabon)
* Sangu language (Tanzania)
* Sanghu, Taplejung, Nepal
* Sangu River, Bangladesh
* Sangu (armour)
''Sangu'' is the term for the three armour components that protected the extremities of the samurai cl ...
,
Lumbu, (H.10)
Vili,
Kunyi.
Maho (2009) adds
Ngubi.
In addition, the unclassified Pygmy language
Rimba (Irimba) is generally assumed to be a dialect of Punu.
Footnotes
References
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