Yansi language

Yansi
Eyansi
Native to DR Congo
Native speakers
 100,000 (1997)[1]
plus 13,000 Ntsuo (2002)
Dialects
  • Yans proper
  • Mbiem
  • Yeei
  • Tsong
  • Mpur
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
yns – Yansi
soo – Songo (Tsong)
Glottolog yans1239  Yansi[2]
song1299  Songo[3]
B.85[4]

Yans (Yanzi) is a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

There are six language varieties Guthrie classified as Bantu B.85 (Yans). According to Nurse (2003), most belong with the Yaka language, though one or two are assigned to Boma–Dzing languages (ex-Yanzi), though he does not say which. Maho (2009) notes that the Tsong variety of Yansi is Ethnologue's unclassified "Songo" language, and so may be the one that does not belong with the rest. Ehret (2009), however, retains most varieties in B.80, and only classifies "Yanz Kimatu" as Yaka. The six Guthrie varieties are:

References

  1. ↑ Yansi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Songo (Tsong) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yansi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Songo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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