Ngasa language

Ongamo
Ngas
Native to	Tanzania
Ethnicity	Ngas people
Native speakers	probably extinct (2012)^[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Saharan Eastern Nilotic Lotuxo–Teso Lotuxo–Maa Maa Ongamo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`nsg`
Glottolog	`ngas1238`^[2]

Ongamo, or Ngas, is an endangered or extinct Eastern Nilotic language of the Ngas 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.

References

↑ Ongamo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ngasa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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.