Lebonya is a proposed intermediate group of
Bantu languages
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.
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coded Zone D in Guthrie's classification. There are three branches:
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Lengola
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Bodo Bodo may refer to:
Ethnicity
* Boro people, an ethno-linguistic group mainly from Northwest Assam, India
* Bodo-Kachari people, an umbrella group from Nepal, India and Bangladesh that includes the Bodo people
Culture and language
* Boro cu ...
*the
Nyali languages
The Nyali languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone D.33 in Guthrie's classification. They are:
: Budu language, Budu, Ndaka language, Ndaka, Nyali language, Nyali, Vanuma language, Vanuma, Mbo language (Congo), Mbo
They might belong i ...
''Glottolog'' 2.3 classifies Bodo instead as one of the
Ngendan languages
Boan (Buan, ''Ababuan'') is a proposed intermediate group of Bantu languages coded Zones C and D in Guthrie's classification.McMaster, Mary Allen. 1988. ''Patterns of Interaction: A comparative ethnolinguistic perspective on the Uele region of Za ...
.
References
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