Bendi languages
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The Bendi languages are a small group of Nigerian Benue–Congo languages of uncertain affiliation. Once counted among the Cross River languages
Cross River languages
The Cross River or Delta–Cross languages are a branch of the Benue–Congo language family in south-easternmost Nigeria posited by Joseph Greenberg...

, they may actually be a branch of Bantoid
Bantoid languages
In the classification of African languages, Bantoid is a branch of the Benue–Congo subfamily of the Niger–Congo phylum. The term 'Bantoid' was first used by Krause in 1895 for languages that showed resemblances in vocabulary to Bantu...

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The languages are:
Alege, Banliku
Banliku language
Banliku is a Bendi language of Nigeria....

, Bekwarra, Bete-Bendi, Boki
Boki language
Boki is a regionally important Bendi language of Nigeria, with a few thousand speakers in Cameroon....

, Bumaji, Putukwam, Ubang, Ukpe-Bayobiri.

The data are too poor to allow internal classification of these languages.
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