User:Kingdom of Kjellskankjid/Llingües Benue-kwa

The Benue-kwa languages or southern Volta-Congo languages constitute the most of Volta-Congo languages. These languages occupy great part of Occidental Africa Occidental, and Central Africa, Southern Africa y East Africa.

Although there are few disputes between authors, the mayor part agree that there are three principal branches:


 * Kwa Languages, are spoken in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin and particularly the southwest territories of Nigeria.
 * Volta-Niger Languages, these include the languages that demographically are most important in the south of Nigeria, Benin, Togo and southeast of Ghana as the Yoruba, Igbo, Edo, Fon and the Ewe language.
 * Benue-Congo Languages, include Bantu language and other Bantoid languages, the Cross River languages and other languages from Nigeria and Cameroon.

Some authors propose that there are two branches that would be closer to each other, although there isn't a general agreement about the relationship between this three.

Lexic comparisson
The numerals reconstructed by different linguistic groups of Benue-Kwa are:

Bibligraphy

 * Joseph Greenberg: The Languages of Africa. Mouton, The Hague and Indiana University Center, Bloomington 1963.
 * Bernd Heine et al: Die Sprachen Afrikas. Buske, Hamburg 1981.
 * John Bendor-Samuel: The Niger-Congu Languages: A Classification and Description of Africa's Largest Language Family. University Press of America, Lanham, New York, London 1989.
 * Williamson, Kay & Blench, Roger (2000) 'Niger-Congu', in Heine, Bernd and Nurse, Derek (eds) African Languages - An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 * Blench, Roger et al 2004, The Benue-Congu languages: A proposed internal classification.


 * link=Wikidata|alt=Wd|20x20px|Wikidata Data: Q5550813