Ngiri language
Ngiri | |
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Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Region | Ngiri River, Équateur Province |
Native speakers | 80,000 (2000–2002)[1] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
Variously: biz – Loi (Baloi) lie – Likila (Balobo) ndw – Ndobo mmz – Mabaale |
Glottolog |
libi1251 (Libinzic)[2]balo1261 (Baloi)[3] |
C.31 [4] |
Ngiri is a Bantu language closely related to Lingala.
Maho (2009) lists C311 Mabaale (Mabale), C312 Ndoobo (Ndobo), C313 Litoka, C314 Balobo, and C315 Enga (Baenga-Bolombo) as distinct languages.[4]
References
- ↑ Loi (Baloi) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Likila (Balobo) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Ndobo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Mabaale at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Libinzic". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Baloi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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