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Pana language

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Pana
Native toCentral African Republic, Chad, Cameroon
Native speakers
(86,000 cited 1996–2000)[1]
Dialects
  • Pana
  • ? Pondo
  • ? Gonge
Language codes
ISO 639-3pnz
Glottologpana1293
ELPPana (Central African Republic)

Pana is an Mbum language of the Central African Republic. A few thousand speak it in southern Chad and northern Cameroon. A dialect in Cameroon, Man, may be a separate language. Blench (2004) leaves Pondo and Gonge in CAR unclassified within the Mbum languages.

References

  1. ^ Pana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)