Songola language explained

Songola
Nativename:Songoora
Also Known As:North Binja
States:DR Congo
Speakers:1,300[1]
Date:1971
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Niger-Congo
Fam2:Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:Benue–Congo
Fam4:Bantoid
Fam5:Bantu (Zone D.20)
Fam6:Lega–Binja
Iso3:sod
Glotto:song1300
Glottorefname:Songoora
Guthrie:D.24

Songola (Songoora), or North Binja, is a minor Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, spoken by the Songora people.

Notes and References

  1. Ethnologue lists South Binja and Gengele among the dialects of Songola, but these have hundreds of thousands of speakers