Pambia
| Pambia | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Democratic Republic of Congo | |
| speaker | 21,000 (in 1982) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
pmb |
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The Pambia language (ISO 639-3: pmb; also called Apambia ) is a Ubangic language spoken in the Congo .
The language only has a total of 21,000 speakers, and the trend is falling, as the speakers are increasingly adopting the Congolese official language, French . The language is spoken in the Orientale province (Haut-Zaïre, Haut-Congo).
Within the language family of the Ubangian languages, Pambia and the related language barambo form the subgroup Barambo-Pambia , which belong to the language group of the Azande languages .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ pmb
- ↑ (1982 SIL)
- ↑ Ethnologue (16th)