Pana language

Pana is an Mbum language of the Central African Republic. A few thousand speak it in southern Chad and northern Cameroon. A dialect in Cameroon, Man, may be a separate language. Blench (2004) leaves Pondo and Gonge in CAR unclassified within the Mbum languages.

Not to be confused with Pa Na language, Pana language (Gur), or Phana’ language.
Pana
Native toCentral African Republic, Chad, Cameroon
Native speakers
86,000 (1996–2000)[1]
Dialects
  • Pana
  • ? Pondo
  • ? Gonge
Language codes
ISO 639-3pnz
Glottologpana1293[2]

References
  1. Pana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Pana (Central African Republic)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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