Mangbetu–Asoa | |
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Mangbetu | |
Geographic distribution | Democratic Republic of Congo |
Linguistic classification | Nilo-Saharan?
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Language codes | |
Glottolog | mang1393 |
The Mangbetu–Asoa or Mangbetu languages of the Central Sudanic language family are a cluster of closely related languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The languages are Mangbetu, spoken by perhaps a million people, and the smaller Lombi and Asoa.
Blench (2000) considers Lombi to be part of the Mangbetu dialect continuum. Asoa is spoken by Pygmies.
Proto-Mangbetu has been reconstructed by Demolin (1992).[1]