Geographic
distribution: Nigeria | Glottolog: bend1256 | |
Linguistic classification: Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Southern Bantoid?
Bendi | ||
The Bendi languages are a small group of Nigerian Benue–Congo languages of uncertain affiliation. Once counted among the Cross River languages, they may actually be a branch of Southern Bantoid.
The languages are:
Alege, Banliku, Bekwarra, Bete-Bendi, Boki, Bumaji, Putukwam, Ubang, Ukpe-Bayobiri.The data are too poor to allow internal classification of these languages.
References
Bendi languages Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA