Mbandja language

Not to be confused with Mbandja Ovambo.
Mbandja
Native to Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Congo, Central African Republic
Native speakers
360,000 (2000)[1]
Dialects
  • Kala
  • Gbado
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zmz
Glottolog mban1263[2]

Mbandja (Banja, Mbanza) is the largest of the Banda languages. There are 350,000 speakers in DRC, 10,000 in the Republic of Congo, and an unknown number in CAR.

References

  1. Mbandja at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mbandja". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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