Kongo languages
The Kongo languages are a clade of Bantu languages, coded Zone H.10 in Guthrie's classification, that are spoken by the Bakongo:
Languages
Glottolog, based on Koen Bostoen, classifies two dozen languages of the Kongo language cluster as follows:- Kikongo language cluster
- *Hungan-Samba: Hungan, Samba
- *Nuclear cluster
- **Yaka-Suku: Suku, Yaka-Pelende-Lonzo
- **"Kikongoic"
- ***Bembe [language (Kibembe)|Beembe]
- ***Kambakunyic Kikongo
- ****Kamba-Kunyi: Kaamba, Kunyi
- ****Kilaadic Kikongo
- *****Nuclear Northern Kikongo: Doondo, Laari, Suundi
- *****Central-Southern Kikongo
- ******Southeastern Kikongo
- *******Eastern Kikongo
- *******Southern Kikongo: Hungu-Pombo, Koongo-Kituba
- ******West Kikongo
- *******San Salvador Kongo
- *******Yombe
- *******Vilic
- ********Vili
- ********Lumbuic
- *********Lumbu, Bwisi
- *********Ngubi; Punu - Vumbu, Sangu - Sira - Barama