The Mangbutu–Lese languages of the
Central Sudanic language family, also known as Mangbutu–Efe or simply Mangbutu (e.g. Starostin 2016), are a cluster of closely related languages spoken in the
Democratic Republic of Congo
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and
Uganda
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.
Moru–Madi languages are spoken to the northeast, and
Mangbetu languages
The Mangbetu–Asoa or Mangbetu languages of the Central Sudanic language family are a cluster of closely related languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The languages are Mangbetu, spoken by perhaps a million people, and the smal ...
are spoken to the west.
[Bokula, Moiso & Agozia-Kario Irumu. 1994. Bibliographie et matériaux lexicaux des langues Moru-Mangbetu (Soudan-Central, Zaïre). ''Annales Aequatoria'' 10: 203‒245.]
The languages are:
:
Mangbutu,
Mvuba,
Ndo,
Mamvu,
Lese,
Bendi.
Efe (the language of the
Efe
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Pygmies) is often counted as another, but appears to be a dialect of Lese. Ndo (Membitu) is the most populous language and is spoken by a
caste
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of blacksmiths.
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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