The Lenduic or Lendu–Ngiti languages of the
Central Sudanic language family
Central Sudanic is a family of about sixty languages that have been included in the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family. Central Sudanic languages are spoken in the Central African Republic, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Congo (DRC), Niger ...
are a cluster of closely related languages spoken in the
Democratic Republic of Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...
, and slightly over the border into
Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...
.
The languages are
Lendu
The Lendu language is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Balendru, an ethno-linguistic agriculturalist group residing in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in the area west and northwest of Lake Albert, specifically the Ituri Provin ...
(Balendru), with over a million speakers, and the smaller
Ngiti and
Ndrulo, as well as perhaps an additional language or two among the 'dialects' of Balendru.
See also
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Central Sudanic word lists (Wiktionary)
Footnotes
References
Nilo-Saharan list(Blench 2000)
Central Sudanic languages
Languages of South Sudan
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