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Where is Southern Ngbandi spoken?

Southern Ngbandi is an Atlantic-Congo language, spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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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 Southern Ngbandi is spoken

Southern Ngbandi is spoken in one country: the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Southern Ngbandi has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Southern Ngbandi?

Wikidata gives about 105,000 speakers (Ethnologue). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

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

Where Southern Ngbandi sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Southern Ngbandi 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. Ngbandi-Mongoba-Kazibati
  7. Ngbandic
  8. Nuclear Ngbandic
  9. Southern Ngbandi

Related languages

Other languages in the Nuclear Ngbandic group:

More about Southern Ngbandi

Codes: ISO 639-3 nbw, Glottolog sout2784. Glottolog macroarea: Africa.

Questions about Southern Ngbandi

Where is Southern Ngbandi spoken?

Southern Ngbandi is spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

How many people speak Southern Ngbandi?

Wikidata gives about 105,000 speakers (Ethnologue). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is Southern Ngbandi in?

Glottolog places Southern Ngbandi in the Atlantic-Congo family, in the branch Volta-Congo, North Volta-Congo, Cameroun-Ubangian, Ubangi, Ngbandi-Mongoba-Kazibati, Ngbandic and Nuclear Ngbandic.

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