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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.)
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R. Cleire, 1942
Talen rond het Kivu-Meer (PDF). Aequatoria, v. 5, p. 44.
www.abbol.com/bookbank/bookbank_text_en.html
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
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
Andre Coupez, 1955
Holoholo wordlist (700 items). Hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
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)
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
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