Bantoid languages

language family

language spoken in Cameroon and Nigeria

proposed group of languages of Cameroon

Semi-Bantu is a language classification within the Niger-Congo group of languages proposed by linguist Carl Meinhof. The Semi-Bantu or Semibantu are specific inhabitants of the Western grassfields of Cameroon (portions of the Adamawa, West, Northwest, and Southwest regions), who speak languages that have certain characteristics to the Bantu language family, particularly the noun class system that is characteristic of Bantu languages. but are excluded from them. The people themselves are considered ethnically and linguistically divergent from other Bantu peoples of central and southern Africa.