Nsongo language
- Not to be confused with the Songo (Nsong, Ntsuo) variety of Yansi.
| Songo | |
|---|---|
| Nsongo | |
| Native to | Angola |
Native speakers | (50,000 cited 1978)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
nsx |
| Glottolog |
nson1238[2] |
H.24[3] | |
Songo (Nsongo) is a Bantu language of Angola. It is similar to North Mbundu, and is often considered a dialect of that language. The true relationship may be a regional influence since it has been suggested that Nsongo and Teke, and it relatives, are close (Nurse 2003).
References
- ↑ Songo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nsongo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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