South Banda language
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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 DRC (6,000 in the 1984 census). The two varieties may be mutually intelligible.
Dialect continuum
A dialect continuum, or dialect area, was defined by Leonard Bloomfield as a range of dialects spoken across some geographical area that differ only slightly between neighboring areas, but as one travels in any direction, these differences accumulate such that speakers from opposite ends of the...
of the Banda languages
Banda languages
Banda is a family of Ubangian languages spoken by the Banda people of Central Africa.-Languages:Olson classfies the Banda family as follows :*Central**Central Banda...
spoken by around 200,000 or so people, primarily in the Central African Republic
Central African Republic
The Central African Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the north east, South Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west. The CAR covers a land area of about ,...
but with ten thousand or so in the DRC (6,000 in the 1984 census). The two varieties may be mutually intelligible.