Mbandja

Mbandja language

Mbandja language

Banda language spoken in central Africa

Not to be confused with Mbandja Ovambo.

Mbandja (Banja, Mbanza) is the largest of the Banda languages. There are 350,000 speakers in DRC, 10,000 in the Republic of Congo, and an unknown number in CAR.

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Phonology

Consonants

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  • [ŋ] mainly occurs as a sound of /n/, when preceding a velar consonant.[2]

Vowels

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More information Front, Central ...

References

  1. [1]
    Mbandja at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Tingbo, Nyi-Zonga (1978). Étude grammaticale de la langue mbandza (dialecte de báláwo). Université Nationale du Zaïre: Lubumbashi.


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