Eastern Mande languages

Not to be confused with the Volta–Niger languages, a distantly related branch of the Niger–Congo family.
Eastern Mande
Eastern Eastern Mande
Geographic
distribution		Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Mali
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
  • Mande
    • Southeastern Mande
      • Eastern Mande
Language codes
Glottologeast2697

The Eastern Mande languages (called Eastern Eastern Mande by Kastenholz, and Niger–Volta by Schreiber[1] and also known as the Bisa–Busa languages) are a branch of the Mande languages spoken in seven areas: northwest Burkina Faso, the border region of northern Benin and Nigeria, and one language, Bissa, also spoken in Ghana, Togo, and Ivory Coast and the Samo languages also spoken in Mali.

  1. ^ Schreiber, Henning. 2008. Eine historische Phonologie der Niger-Volta-Sprachen: Ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der Sprachgeschichte der östlichen Ost-Mandesprachen (Mande Languages and Linguistics 7). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.