Zande language
| Zande | |
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| Pazande | |
| Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, South Sudan |
| Ethnicity | Zande people |
Native speakers |
(undated figure of 730,000 in Congo)[1] 350,000 in South Sudan (1982), 65,000 in CAR (1996)[2] L2 speakers: 100,000 in South Sudan (2013)[2] |
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Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
zne |
| Glottolog |
zand1248[3] |
Zande is the largest of the Zande languages. It is spoken by the Azande, primarily in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and western South Sudan, but also in the eastern part of the Central African Republic. It is called Pazande in the Zande language and Kizande in Lingala.
References
- ↑ Zande at Ethnologue (10th ed., 1984). Note: Data may come from the 9th edition (1978).
- 1 2 Zande at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Zande". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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