Northeast Bantu languages

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Northeast Bantu
Northeast Savanna Bantu
Geographic
distribution:
Tanzania, Kenya
Linguistic classification: Niger–Congo
Glottolog: nort3203[1]
nyat1247  (Nyaturu–Nilamba)[2]

The Northeast Bantu languages are a group of Bantu languages of East African. In Guthrie's geographic classification, they fall within Bantu zones E50 plus E46 (Sonjo), E60 plus E74a (Taita), F21–22, J, G60, plus Northeast Coast Bantu (of zones E & G).[3] Some of these languages (F21, most of E50, and some of J) share a phonological innovation called Dahl's Law that is unlikely to be borrowed as a productive process, though individual words reflecting Dahl's Law have been borrowed into neighboring languages.

The languages, or clusters, are:

Notes

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  3. Derek Nurse, 2003, The Bantu Languages


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