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Banda languages

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Ethnicity:
  
Banda people

ISO 639-2 / 5:
  
bad

Linguistic classification:
  
UbangianBanda

Glottolog:
  
band1341

Geographicdistribution:
  
Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan

Subdivisions:
  
CentralSouthMbandjaNgbunduWest

Banda is a family of Ubangian languages spoken by the Banda people of Central Africa.

Languages

Olson (1996) classifies the Banda family as follows (Ethnologue 16 employs this classification):

  • Central
  • Central Banda (a dialect cluster, incl. Mono)
  • Yangere
  • South Banda (SC)
  • Mbandja (S)
  • Ngbundu (SW)
  • West Banda (WC)

    • References

    Banda languages Wikipedia
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