Beboid languages

Beboid
Geographic
distribution
Southwest Cameroon, southeast Nigeria
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Subdivisions
Language codes
GlottologNone
bebo1243  (Eastern Beboid + Bikya)
yemn1234  (Yemne–Kimbi)
The Beboid languages shown in western Cameroon and eastern Nigeria

The Beboid languages are any of several groups of languages spoken principally in southwest Cameroon, although two languages (Bukwen and Mashi) are spoken over the border in Nigeria. They are probably not most closely related to each other. The Eastern Beboid languages may be most closely related to the Tivoid and Momo groups, though some of the geographical Western Beboid grouping may be closer to Ekoid and Bantu.

Previous research includes a study of noun classes in Beboid languages by Jean-Marie Hombert (1980), Larry Hyman (1980, 1981), a dissertation by Richards (1991) concerning the phonology of three eastern Beboid languages (Noni, Ncane and Nsari), Lux (2003) a Noni lexicon and Cox (2005) a phonology of Kemezung. The Largest Language is the Fang Language of Cameroon