| Pende | |
| Also Known As: | Holu |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
| Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
| Fam4: | Southern Bantoid |
| Fam5: | Bantu (Zone L.10) |
| Glotto: | mbal1259 |
| Glottorefname: | Mbala–Holu–Sondi (K.10) |
The Pende or Holu languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone L.10 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), they form a valid node together with a couple languages from Zone H:
(L10) Pende, Samba–Holu, Kwese, (H10) Suundi, (H40) Mbala
Maho (2009) adds Sonde to L10.