Luban languages

The Luban languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken by the Lubas in the south of DRC Congo, established by Christine Ahmed (1995). They constitute half of Guthrie's Zone L. The languages, or clusters, along with their Guthrie identifications, are:

Luban
Luba–Songye
Geographic
distribution
S DR-Congo, C Zambia
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Glottologluba1253

The remaining L20 (Songe) languages, Lwalu, Luna, and Budya, presumably belong here.[1]

Notes

  1. Nurse & Phillipson 2003


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