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Mel languages

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{{Infobox language family
|name=Mel
|altname=Southern (West) Atlantic [reduced]
|region=Guinea-Bissau through Liberia
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=Atlantic–Congo
|child1=Temne
|child2=Sua–Kissi
|glotto=mela1257
|glottorefname=Mel
}}

The Mel languages are a branch of Niger–Congo languages spoken in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. The most populous is Temne, with about two million speakers; Kissi is next, with half a million.

Languages

Mel has traditionally been classified as the bulk of a southern branch of a West Atlantic branch of Niger–Congo. However, these are geographic and typological rather than genealogical groups; Segerer (2010) shows that there is no exclusive relationship between Mel and the other southern languages, Sua (Mansoanka), Gola and Limba.

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|label1= Mel
|1={{clade
|label1=Temne
|1={{clade
|1=Temne
|2=Baga languages
|label2= Bullom–Kissi
|2={{clade
|1=Bullom languages
|2=Kissi
}}
}}

Footnotes

References

Guillaume Segerer & Florian Lionnet 2010. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120331180907/http://25images.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/player/player.php?id=72&id_sequence=431 "'Isolates' in 'Atlantic'"]. Language Isolates in Africa workshop, Lyon, Dec. 4

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