Ngando language explained

Ngando
Nativename:Longandu
States:DR Congo
Ethnicity:Ngando
Speakers:220,000
Date:1995
Ref:e18
Speakers2:(presumably includes 55,000 speakers (1993) of Lalia[1] dialect)
Familycolor:Niger-Congo
Fam2:Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:Benue–Congo
Fam4:Bantoid
Fam5:Bantu (Zone C)
Fam6:Soko–Kele (C.50–60)
Iso3:nxd
Lc1:lal
Ld1:Lalia
Glotto:ngan1302
Glottorefname:Ngando-Lalia
Guthrie:C.63, 62

Ngando is a Bantu language in the Soko-Kele languages group that is spoken by the Ngando people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Notes and References

  1. Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices