Mangbetu languages

Mangbetu–Asoa
Mangbetu
Geographic
distribution:
Democratic Republic of Congo
Linguistic classification:

Nilo-Saharan?

Subdivisions:
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

  1. 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.

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