Bangi language
Not to be confused with the Bangime language of Mali.
Bangi | |
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Bobangi | |
Native to | Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Native speakers | 120,000 (2000)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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Dialects | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
Either: bni – Bangi mow – Moi |
Glottolog |
bang1354 (Bangi)[2]moic1236 (Moi)[3] |
C.32 [4] |
The Bangi language, or Bobangi, is a relative and main lexical source of the Lingala language spoken in central Africa. Dialects of the language are spoken on both sides of the Ubangi and Congo Rivers.
Sources and references
References
- ↑ Bangi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Moi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bangi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Moi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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