Gbandi language

Gbandi
Native to Guinea, Liberia
Native speakers
 ca. 100,000 (2001)[1]
Niger–Congo
Dialects
  • Tahamba
  • Wawoma
  • Vukoha
  • Hasala
  • Lukasu
  • Hembeh
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bza
Glottolog band1352[2]

The Bandi language, also known as Bande, Gbande, Gbandi and Gbunde, is a Mande language. It is spoken primarily in Lofa County in northern Liberia by the Gbandi people.[3]

Bandi has six dialects: Hasala, Hembeh, Lukasa, Wawana, Wulukoha, and Tahamba, which is the dialect used for literature.[3] The dialects have a lexical similarity of 96% among one another, and 83% with the most similar dialect of the Mende language.[3]

See also

The Gbandi language has the following dialects: Wawoma, Tahamba, Hembeh, Hassallah, Lukasu and Lukassu.

References

  1. ↑ Gbandi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bandi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 1 2 3 Lewis, M. Paul (ed.) (2009). "Bandi". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 3 October 2010.


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