South Banda is a dialect continuum of the Banda languages spoken by around 200,000 or so people, primarily in the Central African Republic but with ten thousand or so in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (6,000 as of the 1984 census). The two varieties may be mutually intelligible.
South Banda | |
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Native to | Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Native speakers | (200,000 cited 1996)[1] |
Language family | Ubangian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:lnl – South Central Bandalna – Langbashe |
Glottolog | sout2786 |
Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Indigenous languages (by province) |
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Sign languages |
Ubangian languages | |
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Gbaya | |
Zande | |
Banda | |
Sere | |
Ngbaka | |
Mba | |
Ngbandi |