Lomongo

Lomongo, Mongo
Spoken in	Democratic Republic of Congo
speaker	approx. 400,000
Linguistic ; classification	Niger Congo Languages Benue Congo languages Bantoid languages Bantu languages Lomongo ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lol

Lomongo , also Mongo or Mongo-Nkundu (ISO-639-3: lol ), is the Mongo language in the Democratic Republic of the Congo .

The distribution area extends over the south of the former province of Equateur and the northeast of the former province of Bandundu . The language is divided into numerous dialects . With around 400,000 speakers, it is one of the larger languages in the region. The language belongs to the northwestern branch of the Bantu languages , subgroup C. Like most Bantu languages, Lomongo is also a tonal language .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Mongo-Nkundu. In: Ethnologue . Accessed February 11, 2019 .

[Ethnologue-1] Mongo-Nkundu. In: Ethnologue . Accessed February 11, 2019 .