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. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ding". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ngul". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Lwel". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  5. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nzadi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  6. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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