Eastern Mande languages
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Not to be confused with the Volta–Niger languages, a distantly related branch of the Niger–Congo family.
The Eastern Mande languages (called Eastern Eastern Mande by Kastenholz, and Niger–Volta by Schreiber[1] and also known as the Bisa–Busa languages) are a branch of the Mande languages spoken in seven areas: northwest Burkina Faso, the border region of northern Benin and Nigeria, and one language, Bissa, also spoken in Ghana, Togo, and Ivory Coast and the Samo languages also spoken in Mali.
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Geographic distribution | Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Mali |
Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo?
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Glottolog | east2697 |
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