Luna is a

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 ...

of eastern

Democratic Republic of the 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 ...

. Assigned by Guthrie to a group called ''Songe'' (L.20), it is presumably one of the

Luban languages The Luban languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken by the Lubas in the south of DRC Congo, established by Christine Ahmed (1995). They constitute half of Guthrie's Zone L. The languages, or clusters, along with their Guthrie identificati ...

established by Ahmed (1995), like most of the other Songe languages, though it was not specifically addressed.Nurse & Phillipson 2003 Ruhlen (1987) agrees in placing it with the Luban languages.

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{{Narrow Bantu languages, J-M Luban languages Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo