Mangbetu languages
The Mangbetu–Asoa or Mangbetu languages of the Central Sudanic language family are a cluster of closely related languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
| Mangbetu–Asoa | |
|---|---|
| Mangbetu | |
| Geographic distribution | Democratic Republic of Congo |
| Linguistic classification | Nilo-Saharan?
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| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | mang1393[1] |
The languages are Mangbetu, spoken by perhaps a million people, and the smaller Lombi and Asoa.
Blench (2000) considers Lombi to be part of the Mangbetu dialect continuum. Asoa is spoken by Pygmies.
Proto-Mangbetu has been reconstructed by Demolin (1992).[2]
See also
- List of Proto-Mangbetu reconstructions (Wiktionary)
- Central Sudanic word lists (Wiktionary)
Footnotes
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mangbetu–Asua". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Demolin, Didier. 1992. Le Mangbetu: etude phonétique et phonologique, 2 vols. Brussels: Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, Université libre de Bruxelles dissertation.
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