Belanda Viri
| Belanda Viri (Bviri) | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
South Sudan | |
| speaker | 16,000 (in 1971) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
bvi |
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The Belanda Viri language (ISO 639-3: bvi; also called belanda, biri, bgamba, gumba, mbegumba, and mvegumba ) is a Ubangic language spoken by the 16,000 Balanda Bviri in South Sudan .
The places where this Belanda Viri is spoken are Bringi, Bagari, Dadu, Ngoku, Ngisa, Farajallah, Ngotakala, Ngongba, Natabo, Momoyi, and some in Raffili , along the Kuru and Iba rivers to the area of the Azande speakers .
Together with the related language bai [bdj] in South Sudan, it forms the subgroup Bai-Viri within the language group Sere-Bviri languages.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ bvi
- ↑ (Welmers 1971)
- ↑ Ethnologue