The Bantoid languages probably do not actually form a coherent group.
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The greatest number of peoples speak various Southern Bantoid languages.
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"' Busuu "'is an unclassified Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon.
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They speak a Bantoid language called Bedzan pygmies ( who also live on the Tikar Plain ) share their language.
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The earlier velar nasal phoneme, which was present in the Bantoid languages, had been lost in Proto-Bantu.
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The "'Kendem "'language, or Bokwa-Kendem, is a minor Southern Bantoid language of the Mamfe family.
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"' Njen "'is a minor Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon, spoken by the residents of the village of Njen.
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The "'Eastern Grassfields "'languages, spoken in the Bamenda grassfields of Cameroon, are a branch of Southern Bantoid languages including Bamileke.
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The term'narrow Bantu'was coined by the " Benue Congo Working Group " to distinguish Bantu as recognized by Malcolm Guthrie in his 1948 classification of the Bantu languages, from the Bantoid languages not recognized as Bantu by Guthrie ( 1948 ).
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As a Center Ring language of Narrow Grassfields, a subdivision of Wide Grassfields within the Southern Bantoid languages, Mmen is part of a cluster including six other languages i . e . Babanki, Bum, Kom, Kuk, Kung and Oku ( Lewis 2009 ).