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Mbandja language

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Banda language spoken in central Africa
Not to be confused withMbandja Ovambo.
Mbandja
Native toDemocratic Republic of the Congo,Republic of Congo,Central African Republic
Native speakers
(360,000 cited 2000)[1]
Dialects
  • Kala
  • Gbado
Language codes
ISO 639-3zmz
Glottologmban1263

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

Phonology

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Consonants

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BilabialLabio-
dental		Dental/
Alveolar		Post-
alveolar		PalatalVelarGlottal
plainlab.
Nasalmnɲ(ŋ)
Plosive/
Affricate		voicelessptt͡ʃkk͡pʔ
voicedbdd͡ʒɡɡ͡b
prenasalᵐbⁿdⁿd͡ʒᵑɡᵑɡ͡b
implosiveɓɗ
Fricativevoicelessfsʃ
voicedβvzʒɦ
prenasalⁿz
Rhoticr
Laterall
Approximantjw
  • [ŋ] mainly occurs as a sound of /n/, when preceding a velar consonant.[2]

Vowels

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Oral vowels
FrontCentralBack
Closeiɨu
Mideəo
ɛɔ
Opena
Nasal vowels
FrontCentralBack
Closeĩũ
Midẽõ
Openã

References

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  1. ^Mbandja atEthnologue (18th ed., 2015)(subscription required)
  2. ^Tingbo, Nyi-Zonga (1978).Étude grammaticale de la langue mbandza (dialecte de báláwo). Université Nationale du Zaïre: Lubumbashi.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
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Indigenous
languages
(byprovince)
Bandundu
Équateur
Kasai-Occidental
Kasai-Oriental
Katanga
Kinshasa
Maniema
Nord-Kivu
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Sign languages
Gbaya
Zande
Banda
Sere
Ngbaka
Mba
Ngbandi


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