Sonde is either of two
Bantu languages of the
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 ...
. Maho (2009) classifies Sonde–''Kisoonde'' as closest to
Suku, but lists an adjacent language also called Sonde as closer to
Pende. These are not distinguished in ''Ethnologue'' or by ISO code.
References
{{Narrow Bantu languages, E-H
Yaka languages
Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo