Southern Mande languages
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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.{{Cite book|title=African languages : an introduction|date=2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|editor=Heine, Bernd |editor2=Nurse, Derek |isbn=0521661781|location=Cambridge [England]|oclc=42810789}}
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Mande
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| label1=Mano–Dan
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| 1=Mano
| label2=Guro–Dan
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| label2=Nwa–Beng
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Vydrin (2009) places Mwan with Guro-Yaure.{{Cite book|title=On the problem of the Proto-Mande homeland.|last=Valentin|first=Vydrin|oclc=798912747}}
There is also an extinct Gbin language. Paperno classifies Gbin and Beng as two primary branches of Southern Mande.{{cn|date=December 2020}}
See also
- Proto-South Mande reconstructions (Wiktionary)