Bangi language
Not to be confused with the Bangime language of Mali.
Bangi | |
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Bobangi | |
Native to | Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Native speakers | 120,000 (2000)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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Dialects |
Moi
Liku
Rebu
Derived creoles:
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
Either: bni – Bangi mow – Moi |
Glottolog |
bang1354 (Bangi)[2]moic1236 (Moi)[3] |
C.32 [4] |
The Bangi language, or Bobangi, is a relative and main lexical source of the Lingala language spoken in central Africa. Dialects of the language are spoken on both sides of the Ubangi and Congo Rivers.
Sources and references
References
- ↑ Bangi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Moi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bangi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Moi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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