Ding language

Ding (also called Di or Dzing) is a Bantu language that is spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ding
Di
Native toDR Congo
RegionKasai River
Native speakers
160,000 (2002)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
diz – Di
nlo – Ngul
nzd – Nzadi
Glottologding1239  Ding[2]
ngul1247  Ngul[3]
lwel1234  Lwel[4]
nzad1234  Nzadi[5]
B.86[6]

Maho (2009) considers the following to be distinct languages closely related to Ding:

B861 Ngul (Ngwi), B862 Lwel (Kelwer), B863 Mpiin (Pindi), B864 West Ngongo, B865 Nzadi

(See Boma–Dzing languages.)

Only Ngul, which includes Ngwi, has an ISO code.

References
  1. Di at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Ngul at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Nzadi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ding". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ngul". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lwel". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  5. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nzadi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  6. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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