lingvo.wikisort.org - LanguageOngamo, or Ngas, is a probably extinct Eastern Nilotic language of Tanzania. It is closely related to the Maa languages, but more distantly than they are to each other. Ongamo has 60% of lexical similarity with Maasai, Samburu, and Camus. Speakers have shifted to Chagga, a dominant regional Bantu language.
Eastern Nilotic language
Ngas |
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Native to | Tanzania |
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Ethnicity | Ngasa people |
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Native speakers | probably extinct (2012)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | nsg |
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Glottolog | ngas1238 |
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ELP | Ngasa |
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History
An expansion of Ngasa speakers onto the plains north of Mount Kilimanjaro occurred in the 12th century. The language was mutually intelligible with Proto-Maasai during that period. Vocabulary retention from this time attests to the cultivation of sorghum and elusine by the Ngas. Subsequent immigration of Bantu-speaking Chagga over the next five centuries considerably reduced the extent and viability of the Ngasa language.[2]
References
- Ngas at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Leeman, Bernard and informants. (1994). 'Ongamoi (KiNgassa): a Nilotic remnant of Kilimanjaro'. Cymru UK: Cyhoeddwr Joseph Biddulph Publisher. 20pp.
Further reading
- Sommer, Gabriele (1992) 'A Survey on Language Death in Africa', in Brenzinger, Matthias (ed.) Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 301–417.
External links
Ngasa profile on the Endangered Languages Project
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Indigenous languages | Bantu | Northeast Bantu | Bena–Kinga | |
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Takama | |
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Kilombero | |
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Rufiji–Ruvuma | |
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Rukwa | |
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Cushitic | |
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Nilotic | |
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На других языках
- [en] Ngasa language
[fr] Ongamo
L'ongamo (ou ngasa) est une langue nilo-saharienne de la branche des langues nilotiques parlée dans en Tanzanie, à l'extrême Nord-Est du Kilimandjaro[2].
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