Beboid languages

Beboid
Geographic
distribution		Southwest Cameroon, southeast Nigeria
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Subdivisions
  • Eastern Beboid
  • Western Beboid
  • Furu?
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 two families of Southern Bantoid languages spoken principally in southwest Cameroon, although two (Bukwen and Mashi) are spoken over the border in southeast Nigeria. The Eastern Beboid languages may be most closely related to the Tivoid and Momo groups. The Western Beboid languages 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

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