Shona languages

Shona
Geographic
distribution:
Zimbabwe,Mozambique
Linguistic classification:

Niger–Congo

Glottolog: shon1250[1]

The Shona languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone S.10 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), the languages form a valid node. They are:

Shona proper, Dema, Kalanga, Manyika, Ndau, Nambya, Tawara, Tewe

Some classifications include them with the other Zone S languages as Southern Bantu.

References

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


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