Ngombe (called also Ba(n)gando-Ngombe, Ngombe-Kaka) is a language spoken by a thousand or so people, mostly adults, clustered around the Mambéré-Kadéï Prefecture in the Central African Republic. Its classification in overview sources is unclear; it may be related to either Baka (Ubangian) or Bangandu (Gbaya), which are not demonstrably related to each other. Most sources list it as a dialect or ethnic name for one or the other without providing comparative data. Moñino (2010) appears to show it on a map of Gbaya languages, but does not mention it by name or provide any data; Ethnologue classifies it as Baka but says it may instead be related to and mutually intelligible with Gbaya.
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| Ngombe | |
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| Native to | Central African Republic |
| Native speakers | 1,450 (1996)[1] |
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| ISO 639-3 | nmj |
Ngombe (called also Ba(n)gando-Ngombe, Ngombe-Kaka) is a language spoken by a thousand or so people, mostly adults, clustered around the Mambéré-Kadéï Prefecture in the Central African Republic. Its classification in overview sources is unclear; it may be related to either Baka (Ubangian) or Bangandu (Gbaya), which are not demonstrably related to each other. Most sources list it as a dialect or ethnic name for one or the other without providing comparative data. Moñino (2010) appears to show it on a map of Gbaya languages, but does not mention it by name or provide any data; Ethnologue classifies it as Baka but says it may instead be related to and mutually intelligible with Gbaya.
References[edit]
- ^ Ngombe at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
External links[edit]
- Map of Ngombe language of CAR from the LL-Map project
- Information on Ngombe language from the MultiTree project
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