Eastern Grassfields languages

Eastern Grassfields
Eastern Grassfields
Mbam–Nkam
Geographic; distribution	Cameroon
Linguistic classification	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantoid Grassfields Narrow Grassfields Eastern Grassfields; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	Bamileke; Ngemba; Nkambe; Nun;
Language codes
Glottolog	mbam1249

The Eastern Grassfields languages, spoken in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon, are a branch of the Grassfields languages including Bamun, Yamba and Bamileke.

The Eastern Grassfield languages have nasal prefixes, while Western Grassfield languages have only "remnants of nasal prefixes". These Grassfield Bantu (GB) languages share about a 41 to 60 percent lexical similarities.

There are four or five branches to the family:

Nkambe languages (north)
Mbam–Nkam (south)

Nurse (2003) reports that Bamileke might be two branches.^{[citation needed]}

References

↑ Akumbu, Pius W.; Wills, Jeffrey (2022). "Remnants of nasal prefixes in Western Grassfields Bantu (abstract)" (pdf). University of Hamburg. p. 2. Retrieved April 28, 2026.
↑ Watters, John R. (2006). Grasslands Bantu, Chapter 14 of The Bantu Languages, Volume 4 of Routledge Language Family Series. Routledge. pp. 225, 227. ISBN 9781135796839. Retrieved April 28, 2026.

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[1] Akumbu, Pius W.; Wills, Jeffrey (2022). "Remnants of nasal prefixes in Western Grassfields Bantu (abstract)" (pdf). University of Hamburg. p. 2. Retrieved April 28, 2026.

[Watters-2] Watters, John R. (2006). Grasslands Bantu, Chapter 14 of The Bantu Languages, Volume 4 of Routledge Language Family Series. Routledge. pp. 225, 227. ISBN 9781135796839. Retrieved April 28, 2026.

Eastern Grassfields
Mbam–Nkam
Geographic distribution	Cameroon
Linguistic classification	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantoid Grassfields Narrow Grassfields Eastern Grassfields
Subdivisions	Bamileke Ngemba Nkambe Nun
Language codes
Glottolog	`mbam1249`