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Zande
Zandic
Geographic
distribution
Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Volta–Congo
      • Savannas?
        • Ubangian?
          • Zande
Subdivisions
  • Barambo–Pambia
  • Zande–Nzakara
ISO 639-2 / 5znd
Glottologzand1246

The Zande languages are half a dozen closely related languages of the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan. The most populous language is Zande proper, with over a million speakers.

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Zande languages

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The Zande languages are half a dozen closely related languages of the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan....

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Zande language

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Zande is the largest of the Zande languages. It is spoken by the Azande, primarily in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and western...

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Azande people

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The Azande are an ethnic group in Central Africa speaking the Zande languages (whose classification is uncertain). They live in the south-eastern part...

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Zande

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Zande may refer to: Zande people, of north central Africa Zande language, the language of the Azande people Zande, Belgium Xande, Zande in the NES fan...

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Ngbandi language

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divergent Ngbandic language. Gbayi had likely been adopted by people who had formerly spoken a Zande language. Nzakara, a Zande language, is spoken near...

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Languages of South Sudan

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Anglo-Egyptian Sudan). Some of the indigenous languages with the most speakers include Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk, Bari, and Zande. Both English and Juba Arabic, an Arabic...

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Noun class

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prefix m-: they all express class 1 despite their different forms. The Zande language distinguishes four noun classes: There are about 80 inanimate nouns...

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Zande literature

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Zande literature consists of the (mostly oral) literature of the Zande people of North Central Africa. A collection of Zande stories, Pa Rika Anya na Asanza...

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Ubangian languages

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members of Niger-Congo. Boyd and Moñino (2010) removed the Gbaya and Zande languages. The half dozen remaining branches are coherent, but their interrelationships...

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Languages of Nigeria

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over 525 native languages spoken in Nigeria. The official language and most widely spoken lingua franca is English, which was the language of Colonial Nigeria...

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List of official languages by country and territory

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This is a list of official languages by country and territory. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part...

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Pambia language

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Pambia (Apambia) is a Zande language spoken in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Pambia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...

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Isiro

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population is estimated at approximately 182,000. Most people speak, Pa-Zande (Zande language), Lingala, Swahili and which is somehow uncommon. Isiro was named...

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Geme language

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Geme is a Zande language spoken in two small villages of the Central African Republic. Gɛ̀mɛ́ or Jɛ̀mɛ́ is spoken north of Ndélé in two villages that are...

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Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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242 languages are spoken. Ethnologue lists 215 living languages. The official language, since the colonial period, is French, one of the languages of Belgium...

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Nzakara language

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Zande language spoken in eastern Central African Republic, spilling over into the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It may be intelligible with Zande...

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Barambu language

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Barambu is Zande language spoken in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is spoken by the Barambu people. Barambu at Ethnologue (18th...

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Mba languages

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from Zande languages to the north. For example, some Mba languages such as Ndunga have borrowed many noun prefixes from nearby Bantu languages (Pasch...

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Languages of Africa

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has over 500 languages (according to SIL Ethnologue), one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in the world. The languages of Africa belong...

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Equatoria

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Elia Kuzee, from ZandeTimon Boro, from Moru Dominic Dabi Manango, from Zande Alison Monani Magaya, from Zande Isaiah Paul, from Zande Dominic Kassiano...

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Mande languages

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The Mande languages (Mandén, Manding; [needs IPA]) are a group of languages spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé peoples. They include...

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Kwa languages

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The Kwa languages, often specified as New Kwa, are a proposed but as-yet-undemonstrated family of languages spoken in the south-eastern part of Ivory...

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Lugbara language

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Province with a little extension to the South Sudan as the Zande or Azande people. The Aringa language, also known as Low Lugbara, is closely related, and sometimes...

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List of languages by type of grammatical genders

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present-day Kannada. Zande: Masculine, feminine, animate, and inanimate. Bantu languages have many noun classes. Rwanda-Rundi family of languages (including Kinyarwanda...

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