| Ding | |
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| Di | |
| Native to | DR Congo |
| Region | Kasai River |
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Native speakers
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160,000 (2002)[1] |
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Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either: diz – Di nlo – Ngul |
| Glottolog | ding1239 (Ding)[2]ngul1247 (Ngul)[3]lwel1234 (Lwel)[4]nzad1234 (Nzadi)[5] |
B.86[6] |
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Ding (Di, Dzing) is a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Maho (2009) considers the following to be distinct languages closely related to Ding:
- B861 Ngul (Ngwi), B862 Lwel (Kelwer), B863 Mpiin (Pindi), B864 West Ngongo, B865 Nzadi
(See Boma–Dzing languages.) Only Ngul, which includes Ngwi,[is this the Ngwii dialect of Mbere?] has an ISO code.
References[edit]
- ^ Di at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Ngul at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ding". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ngul". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lwel". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nzadi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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