Banda languages
Not to be confused with Banda language (Maluku).
| Banda | |
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| Ethnicity: | Banda people |
| Geographic distribution: | Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan |
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| ISO 639-2 / 5: | bad |
| Glottolog: | band1341[1] |
Banda is a family of Ubangian languages spoken by the Banda people of Central Africa.
Languages
Olson (1996) classfies 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)
Notes
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Banda". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
References
- Olson, Kenneth S. (1996) 'On the comparison and classification of Banda dialects'. Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 32(1). 267–283.
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