The Bandi language, also known as Bande, Gbande, Gbandi and Gbunde, is a Mande language. It is spoken primarily in Lofa County in northern Liberia by the Gbandi people.[1]

Bandi has six dialects: Hasala, Hembeh, Lukasa, Wawana, Wulukoha, and Tahamba, which is the dialect used for literature.[1] The dialects have a lexical similarity of 96% among one another, and 83% with the most similar dialect of the Mende language.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b c d Gbandi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gbandi_language
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