Ngbaka languages

The dozen Ngbaka languages are a family of Ubangian languages spoken in the Central African Republic and neighboring areas. It includes Pygmy languages such as Baka and Gundi. The most populous Ngbaka languages are Mbaka in the western branch, spoken by a quarter million people, and Mayogo in the eastern branch, spoken by half that number.

Ngbaka
Mundu–Baka
Geographic
distribution		Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan
Linguistic classificationUbangian
  • Seri–Mba
    • Ngbaka–Mba
      • Ngbaka
Subdivisions
  • Eastern
  • Western
Glottologngba1292[1]

Like the Mba languages, the Ngbaka languages are spoken across discontiguous areas scattered across various central African countries.[2]

Languages

Glottolog 3.4, following Winkhart (2015)[3], gives the structure of the Baka-Mundu family as follows:

The varieties listed for each may not be mutually intelligible.

References
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mundu-Baka". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Güldemann, Tom (2018). "Historical linguistics and genealogical language classification in Africa". In Güldemann, Tom (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of Africa. The World of Linguistics series. 11. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 58–444. doi:10.1515/9783110421668-002. ISBN 978-3-11-042606-9.
  3. Winkhart, Benedikt. 2015. The reconstruction of Mundu-Baka. Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin MA thesis.
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