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Bango language

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Bango
Native toDR Congo
EthnicityBabango
Native speakers
2,600 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bbm
Glottologbaba1263
C.441[2]

Bango (Mobango, Babango), is a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ethnologue suggests it may be a dialect of Budza, but Nurse & Philippson (2003)[3] list it as one of the Bwa languages.

References

  1. ^ Bango at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. ^ Nurse, Derek; Philippson, Gérard, eds. (2003). The Bantu languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780700711345.