Tsogo languages

Tsogo
Okani
Linguistic classification:

Niger–Congo

Glottolog: tsog1242[1]

The Tsogo languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone B.30 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), the languages form a valid node. They are:

Tsogo (Getsogo), Himba (Simba), Pinzi, Vove, Kande

Nurse & Philippson also include (B.10) Myene, following Piron (1997), who makes Tsogo and Myene together a divergent branch of Bantu. Maho adds Viya (Eviya) and Bongwe.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tsogo (B.30)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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