Mangbetu languages
Mangbetu–Asoa | |
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Mangbetu | |
Geographic distribution: | Democratic Republic of Congo |
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Glottolog: | mang1393[1] |
The Mangbetu–Asoa or Mangbetu languages of the Central Sudanic language family are a cluster of closely related languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The languages are Mangbetu, spoken by perhaps a million people, and the smaller Lombi and Asoa. Blench (2000) considers Lombi to be part of the Mangbetu dialect continuum. Asoa is spoken by Pygmies.
Footnotes
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mangbetu–Asua". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
References
- Nilo-Saharan list (Blench 2000)
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