Ngbandi language

E274483

The Ngbandi language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known for being the linguistic source of the trade language Sango.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Ngbandi language canonical 5
Northern Ngbandi 2
Ngbandi (Ngbandi-Ngiri) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Central Sudanic language
Ubangi language
language
belongsTo Ngbandic branch of Ubangi
classificationAccordingTo Ethnologue
Glottolog
ethnolinguisticGroup Ngbandi people
glottocode ngba1288
glottologName Ngbandi
hasAlternativeName Ngbandi language
surface form: Ngbandi (Ngbandi-Ngiri)

Ngbandi proper
Ngbandi
surface form: Ngbandi-Ngiri
hasDerivedVariety Bangala (Ngbandi-based trade language)
hasDialect Bangala (Ngbandi-based variety)
Ngbandi language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Northern Ngbandi

Ngbandi language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Southern Ngbandi

Yakoma
hasHistoricalRole basis of riverine trade communication on the Ubangi and Congo rivers
hasLinguisticFeature subject–verb–object basic word order
hasMorphologicalType mostly isolating
hasPhonologicalFeature tonal language
influenced Sango language
isSourceOf Sango language
languageCodeISO639-2 ngb
languageCodeISO639-3 ngb
lexifierOf Sango language
neighboringLanguages Gbaya languages
Sango language
Zande language
partOf Central Sudanic languages
surface form: Central Sudanic branch

Nilo-Saharan languages
surface form: Nilo-Saharan language family
primaryCountry Central African Republic
Democratic Republic of the Congo
region Ubangi River region
northern Democratic Republic of the Congo
southern Central African Republic
spokenIn Central African Republic
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo
South Sudan
status minority language
vulnerable language
subfamilyOf Ngbandic languages
usedAs regional lingua franca (historically)
usedBy Ngbandi ethnic communities
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ubangian hasSubgroup Ngbandi language
this entity surface form: Ngbandi languages
Ubangian languages hasMember Ngbandi language
Sango language basedOn Ngbandi language
Sango language influencedBy Ngbandi language
Ngbandi language hasDialect Ngbandi language self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Northern Ngbandi
Ngbandi language hasDialect Ngbandi language self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Southern Ngbandi
Ngbandi language hasAlternativeName Ngbandi language
this entity surface form: Ngbandi (Ngbandi-Ngiri)
Sango basedOn Ngbandi language
Sango developedFrom Ngbandi language
this entity surface form: Northern Ngbandi