The Yaka languages are a clade 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 coded Zone H.30 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), with a couple additions the languages form a valid node. They are:
:
Yaka,
Suku–
Sonde,
Mbangala,
Shinji (Yungo), (H40)
Hungana, (B80)
Yansi (a variety or varieties)
The Yaka languages appear to be closest to
Kongo.
Footnotes
References
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