Bantu language of DR Congo
Bango |
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Native to | DR Congo |
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Ethnicity | Babango |
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Native speakers | 2,600 (2000)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | bbm |
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Glottolog | baba1263 |
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| C.441 [2] |
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Bango (Mobango, Babango), is a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ethnologue suggests it may be a dialect of Budza, but Nurse & Philippson (2003)[3] list it as one of the Bwa languages.
References
- ^ Bango at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ^ Nurse, Derek; Philippson, Gérard, eds. (2003). The Bantu languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780700711345.
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Zone C | |
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Zone D | D10 | |
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D20 | |
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D30 | |
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[J]D40 | |
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- Italics indicate extinct languages.
- Languages between parentheses are varieties of the language on their left.
- The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them.
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