Ngbaka Minagende language

Ngbaka
	Ngbaka Minagende
	Ngbaka Gbaya
Native to	Democratic Republic of Congo
Native speakers	1.02 million (2000)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Savannas Gbaya Eastern Gbanu–Ngbaka Ngbaka; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nga
Glottolog	ngba1285[2]

Ngbaka (Ngbàkà) is a Gbaya language spoken by just over a million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is a regionally important language, used by the Gilima, Ngbundu, Mbandja and Mono peoples, and is taught in primary schools; 10% are literate in Ngbaka.

Ngbaka is a common local ethnic name; the language may be distinguished from other languages called "Ngbaka" as Ngbaka Gbaya or Ngbaka Minagende.

There are no significant dialectal differences within Ngbaka, and it may be mutually intelligible with members of the Manza dialect cluster.

References

↑ Ngbaka at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ngbaka". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

External links

Ngbaka at Ghent University

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[e18-1] Ngbaka at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ngbaka". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.