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Ubangian languages

Index Ubangian languages

The Ubangian languages form a fairly close-knit language family of some seventy languages centered on the Central African Republic. [1]

22 relations: Adamawa languages, Atlantic–Congo languages, Banda languages, Bangandu language, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Gbaya languages, Joseph Greenberg, Language family, Mba languages, Ngbaka languages, Ngbaka Minagende language, Ngbandi language, Niger–Congo languages, Republic of the Congo, Sango language, Savannas languages, Sere languages, South Sudan, Zande languages.

Adamawa languages

The Adamawa languages are a putative family of 80–90 languages scattered across the Adamawa Plateau in central Africa, in Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, and Chad, spoken altogether by only one and a half million people (as of 1996).

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Atlantic–Congo languages

The Atlantic–Congo languages are a major division constituting the core of the Niger–Congo language family of Africa, characterised by the noun class systems typical of the family.

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Banda languages

Banda is a family of Ubangian languages spoken by the Banda people of Central Africa.

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Bangandu language

Bangandu (Bàngàndò) is a Gbaya language of Cameroon and CAR.

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Cameroon

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Central African Republic

The Central African Republic (CAR; Sango: Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka; République centrafricaine, or Centrafrique) is a landlocked country in Central Africa.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo), also known as DR Congo, the DRC, Congo-Kinshasa or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa.

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Gabon

Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic (République gabonaise), is a sovereign state on the west coast of Central Africa.

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Gbaya languages

The Gbaya languages, also known as Gbaya–Manza–Ngbaka, are a family of perhaps a dozen languages spoken mainly in the western Central African Republic and across the border in Cameroon, with one language (Ngbaka) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with a few small languages in the Republic of the Congo.

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Joseph Greenberg

Joseph Harold Greenberg (May 28, 1915 – May 7, 2001) was an American linguist, known mainly for his work concerning linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.

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Language family

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.

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Mba languages

The four Mba languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo form a small family of closely related Ubangian languages.

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Ngbaka languages

The dozen Ngbaka languages are a family of Ubangian languages spoken in the Central African Republic and neighboring areas.

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Ngbaka Minagende language

Ngbaka (Ngbàkà) is a Gbaya language spoken by just over a million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Ngbandi language

The Ngbandi language is a dialect continuum of the Ubangian family spoken by a half-million or so people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ngbandi proper) and in the Central African Republic (Yakoma and others).

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Niger–Congo languages

The Niger–Congo languages constitute one of the world's major language families and Africa's largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers and number of distinct languages.

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Republic of the Congo

The Republic of the Congo (République du Congo), also known as the Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Sango language

Sango (also spelled Sangho) is a creole language in the Central African Republic and the primary language spoken in the country.

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Savannas languages

The Savannas languages, also known as Gur–Adamawa (Adamawa–Gur), is a branch of the Niger–Congo languages that includes Greenberg's Gur and Adamawa–Ubangui families.

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Sere languages

The Sere languages are a family of Ubangian languages, such as Kpala, spoken in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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South Sudan

South Sudan, officially known as the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East-Central Africa.

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Zande languages

The Zande languages are half a dozen closely related languages of the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan.

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Ubangi languages, Ubangian, Ubangian language, Ubangian language family.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubangian_languages

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