Baloi (language)
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Democratic Republic of Congo | |
speaker | 20,000 | |
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Baloi (also Baato Baloi, Boloi, Loi or Rebu) is a Bantu language spoken by around 20,000 people (2002 census) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . It is in the province of Equateur to the city Bomongo common.
classification
Baloi is a northwest Bantu language and belongs to the Bangi-Ntomba group , which is classified as Guthrie Zone C40. Within the language group, it becomes the Ngiri languages alongside the Libinza , Likila , and Ndobo languages.
It has the dialects Dzamba (Jamba), Loi, Makutu and Mampoko. Baloi is similar to the Likila and Ndobo languages .