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Where is Ma (Democratic Republic of Congo) spoken?

Ma (Democratic Republic of Congo) is an Atlantic-Congo language, spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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Language families (largest ten)

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

Everything else

  • All other families Smaller families, isolates and unclassified languages.
  • Point A language with no area map. The dot sits at its Glottolog position, in its family colour.

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Where Ma (Democratic Republic of Congo) is spoken

Ma (Democratic Republic of Congo) is spoken in one country: the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo

On the map, Ma (Democratic Republic of Congo) 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 Ma (Democratic Republic of Congo).

How many people speak Ma (Democratic Republic of Congo)?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.

Where Ma (Democratic Republic of Congo) sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Ma (Democratic Republic of Congo) as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Atlantic-Congo
  2. Volta-Congo
  3. North Volta-Congo
  4. Cameroun-Ubangian
  5. Ubangi
  6. Ubangi Ka
  7. Mbaic
  8. Ma (Democratic Republic of Congo)

More about Ma (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Codes: ISO 639-3 msj, Glottolog made1252. Glottolog macroarea: Africa.

Questions about Ma (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Where is Ma (Democratic Republic of Congo) spoken?

Ma (Democratic Republic of Congo) is spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.

Which language family is Ma (Democratic Republic of Congo) in?

Glottolog places Ma (Democratic Republic of Congo) in the Atlantic-Congo family, in the branch Volta-Congo, North Volta-Congo, Cameroun-Ubangian, Ubangi, Ubangi Ka and Mbaic.

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