Southern Mande | |
Also Known As: | Southeastern Mande |
Region: | Ivory Coast, Liberia |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Mande |
Fam3: | Southeastern Mande |
Glotto: | sout3140 |
Glottorefname: | Southeastern |
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.
The following internal classification is from Dwyer (1989, 1996), as summarized in Williamson & Blench 2000.[1]
Vydrin (2009) places Mwan with Guro-Yaure.[2]
There is also an extinct Gbin language. Paperno classifies Gbin and Beng as two primary branches of Southern Mande.