Esimbi is a Tivoid language of southwestern Cameroon . It is also called Isimbi , Simpi , Age , Aage , Bogue and Mburugam .
3-456: High tone is indicated with an acute accent and medium tone is indicated with a macron. This article about Southern Bantoid languages is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a language spoken in Cameroon is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Southern Bantoid languages Southern Bantoid (or South Bantoid ) is a branch of
6-591: The Bantoid language family . It consists of the Bantu languages along with several small branches and isolates of eastern Nigeria and west-central Cameroon (though the affiliation of some branches is uncertain). Since the Bantu languages are spoken across most of Sub-Saharan Africa , Southern Bantoid comprises 643 languages as counted by Ethnologue , though many of these are mutually intelligible . Southern Bantoid
9-470: Was first introduced by Williamson in a proposal that divided Bantoid into North and South branches. The unity of the North Bantoid group was subsequently called into question, and Bantoid itself may be polyphyletic , but the work did establish Southern Bantoid as a valid genetic unit, something that has not happened for (Narrow) Bantu itself. According to Williamson and Blench, Southern Bantoid
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