Ngelima language
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bantu language spoken in DRC
Ngelima | |
---|---|
Angba | |
Native to | DR Congo |
Native speakers | 14,000 (2000)[1] |
Language family | Niger–Congo?
|
Dialects |
|
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | agh |
Glottolog | ngel1238 |
Guthrie code | C.45 [2] |
Ngelima, or Angba (Leangba), is a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The four dialects (Beo, Buru (Boro), Tungu, Hanga) are quite distinct, and may be separate languages.
References[]
- ^ Ngelima at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | |||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Official language |
| ||||||||||||||||||||
National languages |
| ||||||||||||||||||||
Indigenous languages (by province) |
| ||||||||||||||||||||
Sign languages |
|
Narrow Bantu languages (by Guthrie classification) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
This Bantu language-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by . |
- v
- t
Retrieved from ""
Categories:
- Bwa languages
- Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Bantu language stubs
Hidden categories:
- Pages containing links to subscription-only content
- Language articles citing Ethnologue 18
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- All stub articles