Thing (language)
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Spoken in |
Democratic Republic of Congo | |
| speaker | 155,000 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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Ding (also Di, Din and Dzing) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 155,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . It is found in the province of Bandundu in the Territoire Idiofa along the Kasai River .
Thing is written in the Latin script .
classification
Ding forms the Yanzi group with the languages Boma , Mfinu , Mpuono , Tiene and Yansi . According to the classification of Malcolm Guthrie , Ding belongs to the Guthrie Zone B80. It is related to the Yansi language.