What is Southern Bantoid languages?
{{Infobox language family |name=Southern Bantoid |altname=Wide Bantu |region=[[Subsaharan Africa]], but not further west than [[Nigeria]] |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=[[Atlantic-Congo]] |fam3=[[Benue-Congo]] |fam4=[[Bantoid]] |child1=[[Jarawan languages|Jarawan]] |child2=[[Tivoid languages|Tivoid]] |child3=[[Beboid languages|Beboid]] |child4=[[Mamfe languages|Mamfe]] (Nyang) |child5=[[Grassfields languages|Grassfields]] |child6=[[Ekoid languages|Ekoid]] |child7=? [[Mbam languages|Mbam]] |child8=[[Bantu languages|(Narrow) Bantu]] (unity in doubt) }} The '''Southern Bantoid''' languages are a group of [[African languages]] of the [[Niger-Congo languages|Niger-Congo language family]]. This group was first described by Kay Williamson in 1989. Williamson described a way of splitting the [[Bantoid]] languages into two groups, [[Northern Bantoid|North]] and South. According to the ''[[Ethnologue]]'', there are 643 languages in the Southern Bantoid group. Many of these languages are [[mutually intelligible]] (someone who is speaking one language can be understood by someone who speaks another language.) The group includes a number of smaller language families:{{sfn|Williamson|Blench|2000|pp=34-5}} * [[Narrow Bantu]] languages * [[Jarawan languages]] * [[Tivoid languages]] * [[Beboid languages]] * [[Mamfe languages]] * [[Grassfields languages]] * [[Ekoid languages]] There are also some languages in the Southern Bantoid group that have not been [[classification|classified]] into one of these language families. ==References== {{reflist}} === Bibliography === * {{citation|last1=Williamson|first1=Kay|last2=Blench|first2=Roger|year=2000|contribution=Niger-Congo|editor-last=Heine|editor-first=Bernard|editor2-last=Nurse|editor2-first=Derek|title=African Languages – An Introduction|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University press|pages=11–42}} ==Outside pages== * [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=73-16 Southern Bantoid on the Ethnologue] [[Category:Niger-Congo languages|*]]