South Banda
Native toCentral African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Native speakers
(200,000 cited 1996)[1]
Ubangian
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
lnl – South Central Banda
lna – Langbashe
Glottologsout2786

South Banda is a dialect continuum of the Banda languages spoken by around 200,000 or so people, primarily in the Central African Republic but with ten thousand or so in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (6,000 as of the 1984 census). The two varieties may be mutually intelligible.

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental/
Alveolar		 Post-
alveolar		 Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
plain lab.
Nasal m n ɲ
Plosive/
Affricate		 voiceless p t t͡ʃ k k͡p ʔ
voiced b d d͡ʒ ɡ ɡ͡b
prenasal ᵐb ⁿd ⁿd͡ʒ ᵑɡ ᵑᵐɡ͡b
implosive ɓ ɗ
Fricative voiceless f s ʃ (χ) h
voiced v z ʒ ʁ
Tap ɽ
Lateral l
Approximant j w
  • /ʁ/ is heard as a voiceless fricative [χ] when occurring after a voiceless consonant.[2]

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i ĩ ɨ u ũ
Close-mid e ə o
Open-mid ɛ ɔ ɔ̃
Open a ã

References

  1. ↑ South Central Banda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Langbashe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Touguele, Samuel (2008). Phonologie et Morphologie de la langue ngbúgù parlée dans la Basse-Kotto en Centrafrique. Université de Yaoundé.


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