The Bushoong languages are a clade of

Bantu language The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages. The t ...

s coded Zone C.80 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), apart from

Dengese The Dengese, also known as the Ndengese, are an ethnic group from Democratic Republic of the Congo. They speak Bondengese and Lingala Lingala (Ngala) (Lingala: ''Lingála'') is a Bantu language spoken in the northwest of the Democratic Rep ...

and the Shuwa "dialect" of Bushoong, the languages form a valid node. They are: # Hendo (Songomeno) #

Bushoong Bushong (Bushoong) is a Bantu language of the Kasai region of Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was the language of the Kuba Kingdom The Kuba Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of the Bakuba or Bushongo, is a traditional kingdom in Central ...

# Lele # Wongo

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* {{Bantu-lang-stub