Ethnicity Zande people Glottolog zand1248 | ISO 639-3 zne | |
Native to Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, South Sudan Native speakers (undated figure of 730,000 in Congo)
350,000 in South Sudan (1982), 65,000 in CAR (1996)
L2 speakers: 100,000 in South Sudan (2013) Language family Niger–Congo
Zande languages
Zande–Nzakara
Zande | ||
Zande is the largest of the Zande languages. It is spoken by the Azande, primarily in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and western South Sudan, but also in the eastern part of the Central African Republic. It is called Pazande in the Zande language and Kizande in Lingala.
References
Zande language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA