Salampasu language

Bantu language spoken in DR Congo
Salampasu
Chisalampasu
Native toDemocratic Republic of the Congo
RegionCopperbelt
Native speakers
(60,000 cited 1977)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Dialects
  • Luntu
Language codes
ISO 639-3slx
Glottologsala1268
L.51,511[2]

Salampasu (Luntu) is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Maho (2009) considers the Luntu variety to be a distinct language.[2]

References

  1. ^ Salampasu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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