Mbandja language
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Mbandja | |
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Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Congo, Central African Republic |
Native speakers | 360,000 (2000)[1] |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | zmz |
Glottolog | mban1263 |
Mbandja (Banja, Mbanza) is the largest of the Banda languages. There are 350,000 speakers in DRC, 10,000 in the Republic of Congo, and an unknown number in CAR.
Phonology
Consonants
Bilabial | Labio- dental |
Dental/ Alveolar |
Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
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plain | lab. | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | (ŋ) | |||||
Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | t͡ʃ | k | k͡p | ʔ | ||
voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | ɡ | ɡ͡b | ||||
prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ⁿd͡ʒ | ᵑɡ | ᵑɡ͡b | ||||
implosive | ɓ | ɗ | |||||||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | |||||
voiced | β | v | z | ʒ | ɦ | ||||
prenasal | ⁿz | ||||||||
Rhotic | r | ||||||||
Lateral | l | ||||||||
Approximant | j | w |
- [ŋ] mainly occurs as a sound of /n/, when preceding a velar consonant.[2]
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | ɨ | u |
Mid | e | ə | o |
ɛ | ɔ | ||
Open | a |
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | ĩ | ũ | |
Mid | ẽ | õ | |
Open | ã |
References
- ^ Mbandja at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Tingbo, Nyi-Zonga (1978). Étude grammaticale de la langue mbandza (dialecte de báláwo). Université Nationale du Zaïre: Lubumbashi.
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