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[Dr. John E. McLaughlin and Michelle R. Sutton]

Voegelin and Voegelin list 'Bunda' as a dialect of Hungu (all but one of its
relatives is in Dem Rep of Congo, not Angola according to Ethnologue), Zone H
of Guthrie.  Curiously, it's not listed in Ethnologue (although it's mentioned
in one of the sister language's articles), but Ruhlen has it listed in the Yaka
subgroup of Zone H.  The Comparative Bantu On-Line Dictionary is a bust right
now, so I can't look anything up (the only Bantu dictionary I have at hand is
Swahili (Zone G)).

Ralf-Stefan Georg wrote:

[ moderator snip ]

> For the alleged "Congolese" source, I can only throw in that some oblique
> sources accessible to me narrow this down to an unnamed language "from
> Angola", one source giving the language name of /Bunda/. However, I've been
> unable to locate this language so far, neither on the map, nor in one of
> the language lists for Bantu lgs. available to me. I suspect that this lg.,
> if it exists, may be known by some alternative name to specialists. Maybe
> someone knows more about this.