The Lenduic or Lendu–Ngiti languages of the
Central Sudanic language family are a cluster of closely related languages spoken in the
Democratic Republic of Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...
, and slightly over the border into
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa
East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territor ...
.
The languages are
Lendu
The Lendu language is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Balendru, an ethno-linguistic agriculturalist group residing in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in the area west and northwest of Lake Albert, specifically the Ituri Region ...
(Balendru), with over a million speakers, and the smaller
Ngiti
The Ngiti , or South Lendu, is an ethnolinguistic group located in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ngiti speakers call their language ''Ndruna''. In 1991, the Ngiti numbered 100,000 located in the Irumu territory sout ...
and
Ndrulo, as well as perhaps an additional language or two among the 'dialects' of Balendru.
See also
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Central Sudanic word lists (Wiktionary)
Footnotes
References
Nilo-Saharan list(Blench 2000)
Central Sudanic languages
Languages of South Sudan
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