Bongo–Baka languages

Bongo
Bongo–Baka
Geographic
distribution:		 South Sudan
Linguistic classification: Nilo-Saharan?
Subdivisions:
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The Bongo languages, or Bongo–Baka, comprise half a dozen languages spoken in South Sudan. They are members of the Central Sudanic language family.

The most populous Bongo language is Jur Modo, spoken by a hundred thousand people. The languages are:

Bongo, Baka, Jur Modo, Morokodo, Nyamusa-Molo, and Jur Beli.

In various classifications, Bongo is sometimes split off from the rest of the family, so the phrase Bongo–Baka may be less ambiguous than simply Bongo.[1]

References

  1. ^ For example, Ethnologue places Bongo in its own branch of Bongo–Baka, but then comments that it is similar to Jur Beli in the main branch.