Luban languages

The Luban languages are a group of Bantu languages established by Christine Ahmed (1995). They constitute half of Guthrie's Zone L. The languages, or clusters, along with their Guthrie identifications, are:

Luban
Luba–Songye
Geographic
distribution
S DR-Congo, C Zambia
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo
Glottologluba1253[1]

The remaining L20 (Songe) languages, Lwalu, Luna, and Budya, presumably belong here.[2]

Notes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Luban". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Nurse & Phillipson 2003


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