Pande (language)
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Spoken in |
Central African Republic | |
speaker | 9700 | |
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Pande (also Ipande) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 9700 people in the Central African Republic .
It is common in the prefecture of Mambéré-Kadéï and the economic prefecture of Sangha-Mbaéré .
classification
Pande forms the Ngundi group with the languages Bomitaba , Bongili , Dibole , Mbati and Ngundi . According to the classification of Malcolm Guthrie , Pande belongs to the Guthrie Zone C20.
Pande has the dialects Ndjeli, Njeli, Linyeli, Linzeli, Ngili and Bogongo (also Bugongo and Bukongo).