Mangbetu languages
The Mangbetu–Asoa or Mangbetu languages of the Central Sudanic language family are a cluster of closely related languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The languages are Mangbetu, spoken by perhaps a million people, and the smaller Lombi and Asoa. Blench (2000) considers Lombi to be part of the Mangbetu dialect continuum. Asoa is spoken by Pygmies. Proto-Mangbetu has been reconstructed by Demolin (1992). Comparative vocabulary. Mangbetu-Asua languages comparative lexicon: