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Lebonya is a
proposed intermediate group of
Bantu languages coded Zone D in Guthrie's classification.
There are
three branches:
Lengola Bodo the Nyali...
- Kele–Tsogo Teke–Mbede Mboshi–Buja Bangi–Tetela Mbole–Enya Lega–Binja Boan
Lebonya Nyanga–Buyi
Northeast Bantu Tongwe-Bende Mbugwe–Rangi
Kilombero Kongo–Yaka–Sira...
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Central African Republic. It may be part of a
group of
languages called "
Lebonya". Bodo at
Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Jouni Filip...
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Mituku Nyali languages (D.33) may also belong.
Lengola is part of the
Lebonya proposal. Nurse, Derek; Philippson, Gérard, eds. (2003). The
Bantu languages...
- Jobo Ha
Khabo Ha
Khanare Ha
Khati Ha
Leabua (Lentsoaneng) Ha
Leaooa Ha
Lebonya (Lentsoaneng) Ha
Lehloba Ha
Lekhoele Ha
Leqele Ha
Lesala (Botsola) Ha Letlaka...
- languages. It may be
closest to some of the D.30
languages in a
group called "
Lebonya".
There are also
three tones: High, mid, and low.
Lengola at Ethnologue...
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Lakes Bantu languages. Lengola, Bodo, and
Nyali may
belong together as
Lebonya, and B****e in Boan. Kenya,
apart from
Swahili The
languages of Zone E have...
- languages, but the
connection could be with Lengola,
which constitutes the
Lebonya proposal (Nurse 2003). The
Nyali languages were
treated as a
dialect cluster...
- Nyanga-li (Gbati-ri)
Ngendan Homa, Ngbinda, ?Boguru, ?Bodo (perhaps
instead Lebonya) McMaster, Mary Allen. 1988.
Patterns of Interaction: A
comparative ethnolinguistic...
