Luban languages

Luban
Luba–Songye
Geographic
distribution:
S DR-Congo, C Zambia
Linguistic classification:

Niger–Congo

Glottolog: luba1253[1]

The Luban languages are a group of Bantu languages established by Christine Ahmed (1995). They constitute half of Guthrie's Zone L. The languages, or clusters, along with their Guthrie identifications, are:

The remaining L20 (Songe) languages, Lwalu, Luna, and Budya, presumably belong here.[2]

Notes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Luban". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Nurse & Phillipson 2003


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