Southern Mande languages

The Southern Mande languages (called 'Southeastern Mande' in Kastenholz, who calls the superior Southeastern Mande node 'Eastern') are a branch of the Mande languages spoken across Ivory Coast and into Liberia.

Southern Mande
Southeastern Mande
Geographic
distribution		Ivory Coast, Liberia
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo
  • Mande
    • Southeastern Mande
      • Southern Mande
Glottologsout3140

Member languages

Classification

The following internal classification is from Dwyer (1989, 1996), as summarized in Williamson & Blench 2000.[1]

Southern 
Mande
 Mano–Dan 
 

Mano

 
 Guro–Dan 
 

Dan–Goo–Tura

 
 

Guro–Yaure

 
 
 
 Nwa–Beng 
 

Mwa–Wan

 
 

Gban–Beng

 
 
 

Vydrin (2009) places Mwan with Guro-Yaure.[2]

There is also an extinct Gbin language. Paperno classifies Gbin and Beng as two primary branches of Southern Mande.

See also

References
  1. Heine, Bernd; Nurse, Derek, eds. (2000). African languages : an introduction. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521661781. OCLC 42810789.
  2. Valentin, Vydrin. On the problem of the Proto-Mande homeland. OCLC 798912747.


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