Bangi language

Not to be confused with the Bangime language of Mali.
Bangi
Bobangi
Native to Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Native speakers
 120,000  (2000)[1]
Dialects
Moi
Liku
Rebu
   Derived creoles:
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
bni – Bangi
mow – Moi
Glottolog bang1354  (Bangi)[2]
moic1236  (Moi)[3]
C.32[4]

The Bangi language, or Bobangi, is a relative and main lexical source of the Lingala language spoken in central Africa. Dialects of the language are spoken on both sides of the Ubangi and Congo Rivers.

Sources and references

References

  1. ↑ Bangi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Moi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bangi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Moi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online