Southern Mande languages

Southern Mande
Southeastern Mande
Geographic
distribution		Ivory Coast, Liberia
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
  • Mande
    • Southeastern Mande
      • Southern Mande
Glottologsout3140

The Southern Mande languages (called 'Southeastern Mande' in Kastenholz, who calls the superior Southeastern Mande node 'Eastern') are a branch of the Mande languages spoken across Ivory Coast and into Liberia.

Classification

The following internal classification is from Dwyer (1989, 1996), as summarized in Williamson & Blench 2000.

Southern 
Mande
 Mano–Dan 

Mano

 Guro–Dan 

Dan–Goo–Tura

Guro–Yaure

 Nwa–Beng 

Mwa–Wan

Gban–Beng

Vydrin (2009) places Mwan with Guro-Yaure.

There is also an extinct Gbin language. Paperno classifies Gbin and Beng as two primary branches of Southern Mande.

See also

  • Proto-South Mande reconstructions (Wiktionary)