Editing Adamawa–Ubangi languages (section)

==History of classification==
The family was proposed by [[Joseph Greenberg]] in ''[[The Languages of Africa]]'' under the name '''Adamawa–Eastern''' as a primary branch of the [[Niger–Congo languages|Niger–Congo]] family, which is in turn divided in two branches, [[Adamawa languages|Adamawa]] (e.g. [[Niellim language|Niellim]]) and [[Ubangian languages|Ubangian]] (e.g. [[Azande]] ([[Zande language]]), [[Ngbandi language|Ngbandi]], on which the [[Creole language|creole]] [[Sango language|Sango]] is based).<ref>{{cite book|last=Greenberg|first=Joseph H.|year=1963|ref=africa|title=[[The Languages of Africa]]|location=Bloomington|publisher=Indiana University Press}} (Heavily revised version of Greenberg 1955. From the same publisher: second, revised edition, 1966; third edition, 1970. All three editions simultaneously published at The Hague by Mouton & Co.)</ref> Kleinewillinghöfer (2014) believes that the Adamawa languages are most closely related to the [[Gur languages]], although the unity of both the Gur and the Adamawa branch is frequently questioned.<ref>Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich. 2014. [https://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb07-adamawa/files/2018/06/ADAMAWA-Kleinewillinghoefer_04_02_2014.pdf Adamawa]. ‘Linguistisches Kolloquium’, Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, 04 Februar 2014. Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.</ref> [[Roger Blench]] replaced Adamawa–Ubangi with a [[Savanna languages|Savannas]] family, which includes Gur, Ubangian and the various branches of Adamawa as primary nodes. Dimmendaal (2008) doubts that Ubangian is a subfamily of Niger–Congo at all, preferring to classify it as an independent family until proven otherwise.<ref>[[Gerrit Dimmendaal]] (2008) "Language Ecology and Linguistic Diversity on the African Continent", Language and Linguistics Compass 2/5:841.</ref>