Mbum languages

Mbum
Kebi-Benue
Geographic
distribution
southern Chad, northwestern CAR, northern Cameroon, eastern Nigeria
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Subdivisions
  • Central
  • Northern
  • Mbum
Language codes
Glottologmbum1257

The Mbum or Kebi-Benue languages (also known as Lakka in narrower scope[1]) are a group of the Mbum–Day branch of the Adamawa languages, spoken in southern Chad, northwestern Central African Republic, northern Cameroon and eastern Nigeria. Their best-known member is Mbum; other languages in the group include Tupuri and Kare.

They were labeled "G6" in Joseph Greenberg's Adamawa language-family proposal.

  1. ^ Boyd, Raymond. 1974. Étude Comparative dans le groupe Adamawa. (Société d'études linguistiques et anthropologiques de France, 46.) Paris: Centre National de la Récherche Sciéntifique