South Banda is a

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of the Banda languages spoken by around 200,000 or so people, primarily in the

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but with ten thousand or so in the

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(6,000 as of the 1984 census). The two varieties may be mutually intelligible.

References

Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Languages of the Central African Republic Banda languages {{Ubangian-lang-stub