Pende languages

Pende
Holu
Linguistic classification:

Niger–Congo

Glottolog: mbal1259[1]

The Pende or Holu languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone L.10 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), they form a valid node together with a couple languages from Zone H:

(L10) Pende, SambaHolu, Kwese, (H10) Suundi, (H40) Mbala

Maho (2009) adds Sonde to L10.

Footnotes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mbala–Holu–Sondi (K.10)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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