Bango language

{{Short description|Bantu language of DR Congo}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Bango

|nativename=

|region=

|states=DR Congo

|ethnicity=Babango

|speakers={{sigfig|2550|2}}

|date=2000

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Benue–Congo

|fam4=Bantoid

|fam5=Bantu (Zone C.40)

|fam6=Boan

|fam7=Bomokandian

|fam8=Bwa

|iso3=bbm

|glotto=baba1263

|glottorefname=Babango

|guthrie=C.441

}}

Bango (Mobango, Babango), is a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ethnologue suggests it may be a dialect of Budza, but Nurse & Philippson (2003){{cite book |editor1-last=Nurse |editor1-first=Derek |editor2-last=Philippson |editor2-first=Gérard |title=The Bantu languages |date=2003 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=9780700711345}} list it as one of the Bwa languages.

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Category:Bwa languages

Category:Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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