Mangbutu–Lese languages

Mangbutu–Lese
Mangbutu–Efe
Geographic
distribution		 Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda
Linguistic classification Nilo-Saharan?
Subdivisions
Glottolog memb1239[1]

The Mangbutu–Lese languages of the Central Sudanic language family, also known as Mangbutu–Efe or simply Mangbutu (e.g. Starostin 2016), are a cluster of closely related languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.

The languages are:

Mangbutu, Mvuba, Ndo, Mamvu, Lese, Bendi.

Efe (the language of the Efe Pygmies) is often counted as another, but appears to be a dialect of Lese. Ndo (Membitu) is the most populous language and is spoken by a caste of blacksmiths.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Membi–Mangbutu–Efe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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