Zande languages
| Zande | |
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| Geographic distribution: | Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan |
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| ISO 639-2 / 5: | znd |
| Glottolog: | zand1246[1] |
The Zande languages are half a dozen closely related languages of the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan. The most populous language is Zande itself, with over a million speakers.
Languages
Per Boyd (1988), the structure of the family is as follows:[1]
Classification
Zande was once included among the Ubangian languages, but that is no longer tenable.[2] It is not clear if it is a member of the Niger–Congo family, or where it might be in that family.
References
- 1 2 Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Zandic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Moñino Y., The position of Gbaya-Manza-Ngbaka group among the Niger-Congo languages // Genealogical classification in Africa beyond Greenberg. - Berlin: Humboldt Universität, 2010 February 21–22
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