Bangi-Ntomba languages
The Bangi-Ntomba languages are a language group within Guthrie Zone C of the Bantu languages . It is classified as Zone C40 and contains 27 individual languages, which are spoken by a total of around 6,563,000 people, mainly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a few in the Republic of the Congo . Subgroups of the Bangi-Ntombi languages are the Lusengo languages with seven and the Ngiri languages with four individual languages.
The individual languages are:
- Bamwe , around 20,000 speakers
- Bangi , about 111,000 speakers, also in the Republic of the Congo
- Boko , around 21,000 speakers
- Bolia , around 100,000 speakers
- Bolondo , approx. 3000 speakers
- Bomboli , about 2500 speakers
- Bomboma , around 23,000 speakers
- Bozaba , around 5500 speakers
- Dzano , about 6000 speakers
- Lobala , around 60,000 speakers
- Mabaale , around 42,000 speakers
- Moi , approx. 3000 speakers, only in the Republic of the Congo
- Ntomba , about 100,000 speakers
- Sakata , about 75,000 speakers
- Sengele , around 17,000 speakers
- Yamongeri , about 13,000 speakers
- Lusengo languages
- Ngiri languages