Native speakers ca. 100,000 (2001) ISO 639-3 bza | ||
Language family Niger–CongoMandeWestern MandeSouthwesternMende–LomaMende–BandiBandi–ZialoGbandi Dialects TahambaWawomaVukohaHasalaLukasuHembeh | ||
The Bandi language, also known as Bande, Gbande, Gbandi and Gbunde, is a Mande language. It is spoken primarily in Lofa County in northern Liberia by the Gbandi people.
Bandi has six dialects: Hasala, Hembeh, Lukasa, Wawana, Wulukoha, and Tahamba, which is the dialect used for literature. The dialects have a lexical similarity of 96% among one another, and 83% with the most similar dialect of the Mende language.
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Gbandi language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA