Tongwe (Sitongwe) and Bende (Sibende) constitute a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone F.10 in Guthrie’s classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003) they form a valid node. Indeed at 90% lexical similarity they may be dialects of a single language.
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Bantu languages, Benue–Congo languages, Atlantic–Congo languages, Southern Bantoid languages
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