Binji language
Binji is a Bantu language of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Maho (2009) states that it is close to Songe, which is otherwise isolated within the Luban languages established by Ahmed (1995).[4]
| Binji | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Native speakers | 170,000 (2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bpj |
| Glottolog | binj1249[2] |
L.231[3] | |
In the literature it has been confused with Mbagani, which goes by the same name. For instance, Guthrie assigned code L.22 "Binji" to what Maho labels Mbagani; in Maho, true Binji is L.231. The two languages are separated by 200 km.
References
- Binji at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Binji". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- Nurse & Phillipson 2003
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