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Songola language

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Songola
North Binja
Songoora
Native toDR Congo
Native speakers
(1,300[1] cited 1971)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3sod
Glottologsong1300
D.24[3]

Songola (Songoora), or North Binja, is a minor Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, spoken by the Songora people.

References

  1. ^ Ethnologue lists South Binja and Gengele among the dialects of Songola, but these have hundreds of thousands of speakers
  2. ^ Songola at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  3. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online