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| Mbangala | |
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| Native to | Angola |
Native speakers | 400,000 (2012) [1] |
Niger–Congo?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mxg |
| Glottolog | mban1264 |
H.34 [2] | |
Mbangala (Bangala) is a Bantu language of Angola.
The Kongo people are a Bantu ethnic group primarily defined as the speakers of Kikongo).
The Imbangala or Mbangala were 17th-century groups of Angolan warriors and marauders who founded the Kasanje Kingdom.
The 250 or so "Narrow Bantu languages" are conventionally divided up into geographic zones first proposed by Malcolm Guthrie (1967–1971). These were assigned letters A–S and divided into decades ; individual languages were assigned unit numbers, and dialects further subdivided. This coding system has become the standard for identifying Bantu languages; it was the only practical way to distinguish many ambiguously named languages before the introduction of ISO 639-3 coding, and it continues to be widely used. Only Guthrie's Zone S is (sometimes) considered to be a genealogical group. Since Guthrie's time a Zone J has been set up as another possible genealogical group bordering the Great Lakes.