Northeast Bantu languages
The Northeast Bantu languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken in East Africa. In Guthrie's geographic classification, they fall within Bantu zones E50 plus E46, E60 plus E74a, F21–22, J, G60, plus Northeast Coast Bantu. Some of these languages share a phonological innovation called Dahl's law that is unlikely to be borrowed as a productive process, though individual words reflecting Dahl's law have been borrowed into neighboring languages.
The languages, or clusters, are:
- Kikuyu–Kamba Thagiicu :
- *Sonjo
- *Cuka
- *Meru
- *South
- **Kamba, Daisu
- **Gikuyu, Embu
- Chaga–Taita
- *Taita – Sagalla
- *Chaga languages
- Northeast Coast Bantu : Swahili, etc.
- Takama: Sukuma–Nyamwezi, Kimbu, Iramba–Isanzu, Nyaturu , ?Holoholo–Tumbwe–Lumbwe
- Great Lakes Bantu : Rwanda-Rundi, Ganda, etc.
- Bena–Kinga : Sangu, Hehe, Bena, Pangwa, Kinga, Wanji, Kisi, ?Manda
