Mongo language

Not to be confused with Daju Mongo language or Mongo language (Cameroon).
Mongo
Nkundu
Lomongo
Region Democratic Republic of Congo
Native speakers
 400,000 (1995)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-2 lol
ISO 639-3 lol
Glottolog mong1338  (Mongo)[2]
bafo1235  (Bafoto)[3]
C.61,611[4]

Mongo, also called Nkundo or Mongo-Nkundu (Lomongo, Lonkundu), is a Bantu language spoken by several of the Mongo peoples in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mongo speakers reside in central DR Congo over a large area inside the curve of the Congo River. Mongo is a tonal language.

There are a large number of dialects. Maho (2009) lists one of these, Bafoto (Batswa de l'Equateur), C.611, as a separate language. The others are:[4]

References

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

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