Southern Mande languages

The Southern Mande languages (called 'Southeastern Mande' in Kastenholz, who calls the superior Southeastern Mande node 'Eastern') are a branch of the Mande languages spoken across Ivory Coast and into Liberia.

Classification
The following internal classification is from Dwyer (1989, 1996), as summarized in Williamson & Blench 2000.

Vydrin (2009) places Mwan with Guro-Yaure.

There is also an extinct Gbin language. Paperno classifies Gbin and Beng as two primary branches of Southern Mande.