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[ Niger-Congo » Benue-Congo » Bantoid » Bantu » Zone D ]

Bantu languages of Zone D

There are some 30-40 languages in Zone D, the largest of which are Lega-Malinga, Bembe, Komo, Budu, and Bangubangu.

Zone D languages are spoken in eastern Congo-Kinshasa, and small parts of southern Sudan, and south-eastern Central African Republic.

(Note that some languages previously classified in Zone D can now be found in Zone J.)

Quick jump to other Bantu zones:
AAA, BBB, CCC, DDD, EEE, FFF, GGG, HHH, JJJ, KKK, LLL, MMM, NNN, PPP, RRR, SSS

Distribution of Bantu D

General, comparative, miscellaneous back to top »

R. Cleire, 1942
Talen rond het Kivu-Meer (PDF). Aequatoria, v. 5, p. 44.
www.abbol.com/bookbank/bookbank_text_en.html

Bhele (D31) back to top »

C. Chanard
Bhele - système alphabétique d'après "Alphabets des langues africaines", Unesco-SIL 1993. LLACAN (Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire).
sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono

Budu, Ebudu (D332) back to top »

Claertje Frieke-Kappers, 2007
The creative use of genre features: continuity and change in patters of language use in Budu, a Bantu language of Congo-Kinshasa (PDF). PhD thesis. Free University of Amsterdam.
hdl.handle.net/1871/11028

Holoholo (D28) back to top »

Andre Coupez, 1955
Holoholo wordlist (700 items). Hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr

Komo (D23) back to top »

C. Chanard
Komo - système alphabétique d'après "Alphabets des langues africaines", Unesco-SIL 1993. LLACAN (Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire).
sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono

John Paul Thomas, 1992
Tone in Komo (PDF). Work papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota session, v. 36, p. 71-160.
eric.ed.gov (ED351879)

Lega, Kilega, Lega-Mwenga (D25) back to top »

Robert Botne, 1994
Lega wordlist (1,500 items). Hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr

Mubangu Itangaza
Subject-verb position and agreement shift in Kilega (PDF).
eric.ed.gov (ED367185)

Kahombo C. Mateene, 1973
Quelques principes du choix des noms individuels dans certaines sociétés bantu. Cahiers d'études africaines, v. 13, p. 293-325.
www.persee.fr/showIssue.do?issueKey=cea_0008-0055_1973_num_13_50

Nyanga (D43) back to top »

Kahombo C. Mateene, 1973
Quelques principes du choix des noms individuels dans certaines sociétés bantu. Cahiers d'études africaines, v. 13, p. 293-325.
www.persee.fr/showIssue.do?issueKey=cea_0008-0055_1973_num_13_50


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