South Banda language
Ubangian language spoken in central Africa
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South Banda is a dialect continuum of the Banda languages spoken by around 200,000 or so people, primarily in the Central African Republic but with ten thousand or so in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (6,000 as of the 1984 census). The two varieties may be mutually intelligible.
Native speakers
(200,000 cited 1996)[1]| South Banda | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Native speakers | (200,000 cited 1996)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:lnl – South Central Bandalna – Langbashe |
| Glottolog | sout2786 |
Phonology
Consonants
- /ʁ/ is heard as a voiceless fricative [χ] when occurring after a voiceless consonant.[2]
