The Mbum–Day languages are a subgroup of the old Adamawa languages family (G6, G13, G14, & Day), provisionally now a branch of the Savanna languages. These languages are spoken in southern Chad, northwestern Central African Republic, northern Cameroon, and eastern Nigeria.

Mbum–Day
Geographic
distribution
southern Chad, northwestern CAR, northern Cameroon, eastern Nigeria
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologmbum1256

Languages

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Blench (2006) groups the Mbum (G6), Bua (G13), Kim (G14), and Day languages together within part of a larger GurAdamawa language continuum.[1]

The Kim, Mbum, and Day are also grouped together in an automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by Müller et al. (2013)[2]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Blench, Roger (2006). Archaeology, language, and the African past. Altamira Press. ISBN 9780759104655.
  2. ^ 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).