| South Banda | |
| States: | Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Date: | 1996 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam2: | Banda |
| Lc1: | lnl |
| Ld1: | South Central Banda |
| Lc2: | lna |
| Ld2: | Langbashe |
| Glotto: | sout2786 |
| Glottorefname: | Ngbugu-Langbasi |
South Banda is a dialect continuum of the Banda languages spoken by around 200,000 or so people, primarily in the Central African Republic but with ten thousand or so in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (6,000 as of the 1984 census). The two varieties may be mutually intelligible.
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | |||||||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| prenasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| implosive | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Tap | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||||
| Lateral | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | |
| Close-mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
| Open-mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ |