Bandi (language)
| Bandi | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Guinea , Liberia | |
| speaker | 107,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
bza |
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Bandi , also known as Bande , Gbande , Gbandi, and Gbunde , is a Mande language .
It is spoken mainly by the Bandi people in Lofa County in northern Liberia . It is written with the Latin script , earlier the Mende script was also used.
Bandi has six dialects: Hasala, Hembeh, Lukasa, Wawana, Wulukoha and Tahamba, which is the standard dialect also used for literature. The dialects each have a linguistic similarity of 96% with the other dialect, and 83% with the most similar dialect of the Mende language .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Lewis, M. Paul (ed.): Bandi . In: Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th edition . SIL International . 2009. Retrieved October 3, 2010.