Banda, Togbo-Vara

TOR

vigorous

Dialects: Togbo (Tagbo, Tohgboh). Not intelligible of other Banda languages or dialects in South Sudan.

Genealogy:

Niger-Congo
Atlantic-Congo
Volta-Congo
North
Adamawa-Ubangi
Ubangi
Banda
Central
Central Core
Togbo-Vara

Demographics: 12,000 in Democratic Republic of the Congo (1984 census). Population total all countries: 24,000.

Language Use: Also use Lingala [lin], Mono [mnh], Sango [sag].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L2: Low in Lingala and not increasing.

Writing System: Unwritten

Nation of Origin: Democratic Republic of the Congo

Other Comments: Different from Tagbu , of Democratic Republic of the Congo in Sere group.