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Foto language

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Foto
Bafoto
Native toDR Congo
Extinctby 2001[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologbafo1235
C.611[2]

Foto (Bafoto) is an extinct Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Malcolm Guthrie classified it close to Mongo. However, Mongo and its closest relatives were split between the Bangi–Ntomba and Soko–Kele branches of Bantu in Nurse (2003), and it is not clear where Foto belongs.

References

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  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Bafoto". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online