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Bongo–Baka languages

Central sudanic subfamily From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Bongo languages, or Bongo–Baka, comprise six languages spoken in South Sudan. They are members of the Central Sudanic language family.

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The most populous Bongo language is Jur Modo, spoken by a hundred thousand people. The languages are:

In various classifications, Bongo is sometimes split off from the rest of the family, so the phrase Bongo–Baka may be less ambiguous than simply Bongo.[1]

However, Boyeldieu (2006)[2] does not consider Bongo–Baka to be a valid grouping, and considers Bongo and Baka to each be primary splits from Proto-Sara-Bongo-Bagirmi.

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