Mbati
| Mbati | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Spoken in |
Central African Republic | |
| speaker | 60,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
||
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
|
| ISO 639 -2 |
- |
|
| ISO 639-3 | ||
Mbati (also Isongo, Issongo, Lisongo, Lissongo and Songo) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 60,000 people in the Central African Republic .
It is common in Lobaye Prefecture around Mbaiki .
classification
Mbati forms the Ngundi group with the languages Bomitaba , Bongili , Dibole , Ngundi and Pande . According to the division of Malcolm Guthrie , Mbati belongs to Guthrie Zone C20.
Mbati has the dialects Bolemba, Mbati, Bwaka and Bonzio.