Songe language

Songe
Songe
Native to	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region	Kasai-Oriental province
Native speakers	(1 million cited 1991)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Luban Songe–Binji Songe; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sop
Glottolog	song1303
Guthrie code	L.23

Songe, also known as Songye, Kisonge, Lusonge, Yembe, and Northeast Luba, is a Bantu language spoken by the Songye people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Ethnologue notes that Songe is "related" to Mbagani, which they do not include in their database. Maho (2009) labels as "Mbagani (Binji)" one of the two geographic areas Ethnologue assigns to Songe, but says that it is closer to Lwalu; he says that it is a different language, Binji, that is close to Songe.

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