Ngando language

{{Short description|Bantu language spoken in DR Congo}}

{{for|the macrolanguage of the Central African Republic|Ngando language (Central African Republic)}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Ngando

|nativename=Longandu

|region=

|states=DR Congo

|ethnicity=Ngando

|speakers=220,000

|date=1995

|ref=e18

|speakers2=(presumably includes 55,000 speakers (1993) of LaliaHammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices dialect)

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Benue–Congo

|fam4=Bantoid

|fam5=Bantu (Zone C)

|fam6=Soko–Kele (C.50–60)

|iso3=nxd

|lc1=lal|ld1=Lalia

|glotto=ngan1302

|glottorefname=Ngando-Lalia

|guthrie=C.63, 62

}}

Ngando is a Bantu language in the Soko-Kele languages group that is spoken by the Ngando people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Category:Soko-Kele languages

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