Mboshi languages explained

Mboshi
Familycolor:Niger-Congo
Fam2:Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:Benue–Congo
Fam4:Southern Bantoid
Fam5:Bantu (Zone C.20)
Fam6:Mboshi–Buja?
Glotto:koyo1244
Glottorefname:Koyo–Mboshi

The Mboshi languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone C.20 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), apart from Kyba (Kuba), the languages form a valid node. They are:

Kwala, Mbosi, Koyo, Akwa, MbokoMaho (2009) adds Bwenyi.

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