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Where is Bodo (Central African Republic) spoken?

Bodo (Central African Republic) is an Atlantic-Congo language, spoken in the Central African Republic. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

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Where Bodo (Central African Republic) is spoken

Bodo (Central African Republic) is spoken in one country: the Central African Republic.

Country
Central African Republic

On the map, Bodo (Central African Republic) is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Bodo (Central African Republic).

How many people speak Bodo (Central African Republic)?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Moribund. Glottolog lists it as moribund: the youngest speakers are middle-aged or older, and children are no longer learning it.

Where Bodo (Central African Republic) sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Bodo (Central African Republic) as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Atlantic-Congo
  2. Volta-Congo
  3. Benue-Congo
  4. Bantoid
  5. Southern Bantoid
  6. Narrow Bantu
  7. Central-Western Bantu
  8. North Zaire River
  9. Rivers Bantu
  10. Ngiri
  11. Ngiri Terrien
  12. Ngombe-Ababuan
  13. Ababuan
  14. Old Bomokandian
  15. Ngbele-Ngenda
  16. Ngendan
  17. Unclassified Ngendan
  18. Bodo (Central African Republic)

Related languages

Other languages in the Unclassified Ngendan group:

More about Bodo (Central African Republic)

Codes: ISO 639-3 boy, Glottolog bodo1272. Glottolog macroarea: Africa.

Questions about Bodo (Central African Republic)

Where is Bodo (Central African Republic) spoken?

Bodo (Central African Republic) is spoken in the Central African Republic. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.

Which language family is Bodo (Central African Republic) in?

Glottolog places Bodo (Central African Republic) in the Atlantic-Congo family, in the branch Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern Bantoid, Narrow Bantu, Central-Western Bantu, North Zaire River, Rivers Bantu, Ngiri, Ngiri Terrien, Ngombe-Ababuan, Ababuan, Old Bomokandian, Ngbele-Ngenda, Ngendan and Unclassified Ngendan.

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