Ongamo | |
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Ngasa | |
Spoken in | Tanzania |
Ethnicity | Ngasa people |
Native speakers | extinct (date missing) |
Language family |
Nilo-Saharan?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nsg |
Ongamo, or Ngasa, is an endangered or extinct Eastern Nilotic language of the Ngasa people of Tanzania. It is related to the Maa languages, but it is more distantly related to them than the Maa languages are to each other. Ongamo has 60% of lexical similarity with Maasai, 59% with Samburu, 58% with Camus. Many of its speakers have shifted to Chagga, a dominant regional Bantu language.