Lebonya languages
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Lebonya is a proposed intermediate group of Bantu languages
coded Zone D in Guthrie's classification. There are three branches:
Bantu languages
The Bantu languages constitute a traditional sub-branch of the Niger–Congo languages. There are about 250 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility, though the distinction between language and dialect is often unclear, and Ethnologue counts 535 languages...
coded Zone D in Guthrie's classification. There are three branches:
- LengolaLengola languageLengola is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is not close to other Bantu languages. It may be closest to some of the D.30 languages in a group called "Lebonya"....
- BodoBodo language (Bantu)Bodo is a possibly extinct Bantu language of the Central African Republic. It may be part of a group of languages called "Lebonya"....
- the Nyali languagesNyali languagesThe Nyali languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone D.33 in Guthrie's classification. They are:They might belong in with the Mbole–Enya languages, but the connection could be with Lengola, which constitutes the Lebonya proposal ....