Bangubangu language

Bangubangu
Native to	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region	Katanga province
Native speakers	170,000 (1995)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Luban Hemba (mostly); Luba (Mutingua) Bangubangu
Dialects	Bangubangu proper Mikebwe Kasenga Nonda Hombo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bnx
Glottolog	bang1350[2]
Guthrie code	D.27[3]

Bangubangu is a Bantu dialect cluster spoken by the Bangubangu people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The dialects are about 80% similar, apart from Hombo which is only 70% similar to the main dialect. It is possible that they are distinct languages. Christine Ahmed (1995) classifies the small "Bangubangu of Mutingua" apart from the rest, with the Luba rather than Hemba languages; this is presumably a Hombo dialect.

References

1. Bangubangu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bangubangu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online