Pende languages

{{Infobox language family |name=Pende |altname=Holu |ethnicity= |region= |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=[[Atlantic–Congo]] |fam3=[[Benue–Congo]] |fam4=[[Southern Bantoid]] |fam5=[[Bantu languages|Bantu]] ([[Guthrie classification of Bantu languages#Zone L|Zone L.10]]) |glotto=mbal1259 |glottorefname=Mbala–Holu–Sondi (K.10) }}

The '''Pende''' or '''Holu languages''' are a clade of [[Bantu language]]s coded Zone L.10 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), they form a valid node together with a couple languages from Zone H: :(L10) [[Pende language|Pende]], [[Samba language|Samba]]–[[Holu language|Holu]], [[Kwese language|Kwese]], (H10) [[Suundi language|Suundi]], (H40) [[Mbala language|Mbala]]

Maho (2009) adds [[Sonde language (L101)|Sonde]] to L10.

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==References== * {{cite book |editor1-last=Nurse |editor1-first=Derek |editor2-last=Philippson |editor2-first=Gérard |title=The Bantu languages |date=2003 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=9780700711345}}

{{Narrow Bantu languages}}

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