Bangubangu language

Bangubangu
Native to Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region Katanga province
Native speakers
 170,000  (1995)[1]
Niger–Congo
Dialects
Bangubangu proper
Mikebwe
Kasenga
Nonda
Hombo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bnx
Glottolog bang1350[2]
D.27[3]

Bangubangu is a Bantu dialect cluster spoken by the Bangubangu people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The dialects are about 80% similar, apart from Hombo which is only 70% similar to the main dialect. It is possible that they are distinct languages. Christine Ahmed (1995) classifies the small "Bangubangu of Mutingua" apart from the rest, with the Luba rather than Hemba languages; this is presumably a Hombo dialect.

References

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