Lenduic languages

The Lenduic languages of the Central Sudanic language family are a cluster of closely related languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and slightly over the border into Uganda.

Lenduic
Geographic
distribution
Democratic Republic of Congo
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
  • Central Sudanic
    • Eastern
      • Lenduic
Subdivisions
Glottologlend1246[1]

The languages are Lendu (Balendru), with over a million speakers, and the smaller Ngiti and Ndrulo, as well as perhaps an additional language or two among the 'dialects' of Balendru.

See also

Footnotes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lenduic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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