Pana language

Not to be confused with Pa Na language, Pana language (Gur), or Phana’ language.

Pana
Native to	Central African Republic, Chad, Cameroon
Native speakers	86,000 (1996–2000)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Mbum–Day Mbum Central Mbum Karang Pana
Dialects	Pana ? Pondo ? Gonge
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`pnz`
Glottolog	`pana1293`^[2]

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.

References

↑ Pana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Pana (Central African Republic)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Roger Blench, 2004. List of Adamawa languages (ms)

Languages of the Central African Republic

Official languages	French Sango

National languages	Gbanu Kabba Kako Kare Laka Mbay Mbum Ngam Ngbaka Ma’bo Pana Yaka Zande

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