Ding language

Ding
Di
Native to DR Congo
Region Kasai River
Native speakers
160,000 (2002)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
diz  Di
nlo  Ngul
Glottolog ding1239  (Ding)[2]
ngul1247  (Ngul)[3]
lwel1234  (Lwel)[4]
nzad1234  (Nzadi)[5]
B.86[6]

Ding (Di, Dzing) is a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Maho (2009) considers the following to be distinct languages closely related to Ding:

B861 Ngul (Ngwi), B862 Lwel (Kelwer), B863 Mpiin (Pindi), B864 West Ngongo, B865 Nzadi

(See Boma–Dzing languages.) Only Ngul, which includes Ngwi, has an ISO code.

References

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


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