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Mangbetu languages

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Subdivisions:
  
Mangbetu Lombi Asoa

Glottolog:
  
mang1393

Geographic distribution:
  
Democratic Republic of Congo

Linguistic classification:
  
Nilo-Saharan? Central Sudanic Eastern Mangbetu–Asoa

The Mangbetu–Asoa or Mangbetu languages of the Central Sudanic language family are a cluster of closely related languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The languages are Mangbetu, spoken by perhaps a million people, and the smaller Lombi and Asoa. Blench (2000) considers Lombi to be part of the Mangbetu dialect continuum. Asoa is spoken by Pygmies.

References

Mangbetu languages Wikipedia