Mbati language

Spoken in

  • Niger - Congo languages Benue - Congo languages Bantoide languages Bantu languages Mbati

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Mbati (also Isongo, Issongo, Lisongo, Lissongo and Songo ) is a Bantu language and is spoken by about 60,000 people in the Central African Republic.

It is distributed in the prefecture Lobaye to Mbaiki.

Classification

Mbati forms with the languages ​​Bomitaba, Bongili, Dibole, Ngundi and Pande Ngundi the group. After the classification of Malcolm Guthrie Mbati belongs to the Guthrie - area C20.

Mbati has the dialects Bolemba, Mbati, Bwaka and Bonzio.

Language family Mbaïki Bomitaba language Bongili language Bole language (Bantu) Ngondi language Pande language
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