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Ongamo, 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.

Ngas
Ongamo
Native toTanzania
EthnicityNgasa people
Native speakers
probably extinct (2012)[1]
Language family
Nilo-Saharan?
  • Eastern Saharan
    • Eastern Nilotic
Language codes
ISO 639-3nsg
Glottologngas1238
ELPNgasa

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


  1. Ngas at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Leeman, Bernard and informants. (1994). 'Ongamoi (KiNgassa): a Nilotic remnant of Kilimanjaro'. Cymru UK: Cyhoeddwr Joseph Biddulph Publisher. 20pp.

Further reading




Ngasa profile on the Endangered Languages Project


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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