Banda languages

Banda is a family of Ubangian languages spoken by the Banda people of Central Africa.

Languages

Olson (1996) classfies the Banda family as follows (Ethnologue 16 employs this classification):

  • Central
  • Central Banda (a dialect cluster, incl. Mono)
  • Yangere
  • South Banda (SC)
  • Mbandja (S)
  • Ngbundu (SW)
  • West Banda (WC)
  • Notes

  • Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Banda". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  • References

  • Olson, Kenneth S. (1996) 'On the comparison and classification of Banda dialects'. Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 32(1). 267–283.

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