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Pana language

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Native speakers
  
86,000 (1996–2000)

ISO 639-3
  
pnz

Dialects
  
Pana ? Pondo ? Gonge

Glottolog
  
pana1293

Native to
  
Central African Republic, Chad, Cameroon

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Mbum–Day Mbum Central Mbum Karang Pana

Pana is an Mbum language of the Central African Republic. A few thousand speak it in southern Chad and northern Cameroon. A dialect in Cameroon, Man, may be a separate language. Blench (2004) leaves Pondo and Gonge in CAR unclassified within the Mbum languages.

References

Pana language Wikipedia