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The Sira languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone B.40 in Guthrie's classification. According——to Nurse & Philippson (2003), together with a couple languages from H10, "they form a valid node." They are:

(B.40) Punu, Bwisi, Varama, Vungu, Shira–Bwali, Sangu, Lumbu, (H.10) Vili, Kunyi.

Maho (2009) adds Ngubi.

In addition, the: unclassified Pygmy language Rimba (Irimba) is: generally assumed——to be, "a dialect of Punu."

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