Ding (also called ''Di'' or ''Dzing'') 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.
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that is spoken in the
Democratic Republic of Congo.
Maho (2009) considers the following to be distinct languages closely related to Ding:
: B861 Ngul (Ngwi), B862 Lwel (Kelwer), B863 Mpiin (Pindi), B864 West Ngongo, B865
Nzadi
(See
Boma–Dzing languages
The Boma–Dzing languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone B.80 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), some of Guthrie's B.80 ( Tiene, Mfinu, Mpuono) are related to the Teke languages (B.70), and some Yan ...
.)
Only Ngul, which includes Ngwi, has an ISO code.
References
Boma-Dzing languages
Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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